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Another word for manly

Adjective

  1. Of, characteristic of, or befitting the male sex

    2. See also:

    gender

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Sentence Examples

  • He delighted in sport and all manly exercises.

  • He seemed to her kind, brave, determined, manly, and magnanimous.

  • This was manly, as the world goes; and yet it was idle, if not desperate.

  • The manly voice again interrupted the artillery officer.

  • It is also charged with a robust and manly eloquence and a rare and unsought felicity of language that make it a masterpiece of style.

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