manly
IPA: mˈænɫi
noun
- A surname.
- A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
adjective
- Having the characteristics of a man.
- Having qualities viewed as befitting a man; courageous, resolute, noble.
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Examples of "manly" in Sentences
- The denudation was not manly enough.
- The characters are mostly of the bearish, manly look.
- By registered post; and what I call a manly letter from Lord Harry.
- Now that's what I call manly, and you don't need sunglasses for that.
- Manly is an adjective corresponding to manliness, manhood or masculinity.
- He admires manliness and has long delusional fantasies about being manly.
- It ain't what I call manly, -- not that longing after other folks 'money.
- He likes manly desserts, what I call manly dessert, meaning, you know, dessert-dessert.
- They brought a certain manly swagger, a virility that dazzled the other two groups and appealed to their deep need for dominance and control.
- Unfortunately, or I guess fortunately (because the macho and manly is what women find attractive), men are macho and they aren't 'supposed' to feel those urges and soft feelings.
- As something of a London scholar I can assure you that the notion is as ludicrous as suggesting that the author of "White Fang" was a cross-dressing hermaphrodite who buried his sexual shame in manly exploits.
- He must make up his mind to lay aside what he calls his manly instincts and personal independence, and resolve to submissively obey all order of his superiors without a murmur, even though they are not stated exactly in accordance with the rules of syntax, laid down by Lindley Murray.
- -- whether he should follow after that way of life to which you exhort me, and act what you call the manly part of speaking in the assembly, and cultivating rhetoric, and engaging in public affairs, according to the principles now in vogue; or whether he should pursue the life of philosophy; -- and in what the latter way differs from the former.
- So too in the case of flattery we must observe and be on our guard against wastefulness being called liberality, and cowardliness prudence, and madness quick-wittedness, and meanness frugality, and the amorous man called social and affectionate, and the term manly applied to the passionate and vain man, and the term civil applied to the paltry and mean man.
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