manly

Example Sentences

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“Bear with me. This is going to be the manliest thing you’ve ever heard.”

From Literature

Trying to look manly and tough when your entire regime, from the top on down, consists of shifty characters with a wide range of obvious personality disorders might seem like a categorical error.

From Salon

The Pittsburg Post scolded, “It is not very manly or very dignified to slander a lady when she is not present.”

From Literature

Mr. Powell radiates such manly American likability that it’s bizarrely out of character for him to play this ruthless schemer, even as an impish chancer.

From The Wall Street Journal

Rachel Mason says when she posts about TRT she finds "many women are so scared to start testosterone, they worry they will become manly, develop facial hair, lose themselves."

From BBC