masculine

Simmering and subtly cumulative, the movie is full of overwhelming anguish, buried beneath a masculine stoicism forever threatening to come undone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

He also gives advice on appearing masculine and performs stunts to shock followers.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

She’s repeatedly told me that El-Sayed seems like an overly masculine guy who’s doing a right-wing machismo act.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

She’s 17 years my senior, so when they got married, I was a kid — he became my big brother and was a masculine figure in my life and all that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

He was a firmly masculine type; perhaps he was disliked only because he had matured before the rest of us.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

Nouns signifying males are masculines; as, fear a man, righ a king, sagart a priest, tarbh a bull, cu a dog.

From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart

The ladies put on their most scrumptious dresses, and the masculines blaze in red and blue and green neckties that almost set you on fire.

From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

About the end of the 11th century feminines not ending in e = ǝ take, by analogy of the masculines, s in the nom. sing., thus distinguishing nom. flors from acc. flor.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various

"Dazzling, by God!" whispered some of the masculines that stood apart, and there were others that spoke not a word, but stood spell-bound at her majestic mien.

From Mistress Penwick by Dutton Payne

A century later, masculines without s in the nom. sing. take this consonant by analogy of the other masculines, giving leres as nom. similar to tors.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various