virile

IPA: vˈɪrʌɫ

adjective

  • Manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor.
  • (physiology, of a male) Possessing high sexual drive and capacity for sexual intercourse.
  • (grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine animate nouns.
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Examples of "virile" in Sentences

  • She discovered it in the "virile" attentions of Molineux's friend Barnet.
  • Would the same caveat hold for the use of the word "virile" to describe the Socratic method?
  • If you visit Benin and Nigeria, you’ll see that he is characterized as virile with horns and phallus.
  • They've been made to believe that it makes them, what they call virile, poor fools, and they're growing ill on it.
  • He was what he and his followers liked to call the virile or red-blooded type, responsive to the "Call of the Wild,"
  • It's already been posted on a number of blogs and websites, and seems to have gone what they call "virile" in Web parlance.
  • These happen all the time, whether we're aware of them or not, and the notion that something a bit more virile is at work behind these exchanges is always an interesting one.
  • It is rather the re-assertion of the elemental quality in virile mankind, which, first in the garden was impelled to subdue the earth, and later founded colonies and transplanted empires across the faces of the planet.
  • What some reports call "virile" disagreements during the negotiations basically centered on British concerns that increased regulation and taxation of financial services might harm the City of London as Europe's finance capital.
  • In 1910 the Royal Canadian Academy sent an exhibition to England and I remember the disappointment expressed in the English papers in expecting to find something breezy and virile from a young country and finding only a tame acceptance of their own convictions.

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