manlike

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as in masculine
having qualities or traits that are traditionally considered inappropriate for a girl or woman all the little girls at the lunch table laughed uproariously when one of them emitted a manlike belch

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for manlike
Adjective
  • Each shutout was estimated to increase both the likelihood that male students chose a major from the business school by 1.9 percentage points (or 24%) and their starting salary by $2,000.
    Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • In womenswear today, a flash of thigh is as ubiquitous as a crew neck T-shirt, but the male leg is far less familiar.
    Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • Levant encouraged men to take this time to think about masculine ideologies they were taught at a young age and be open to expressing vulnerability more genuinely.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 21 May 2025
  • Plus, there’s plenty to dissect about how much the show was about the masculine fantasies of the War on Terror.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • Dior’s collection referenced the H-line created by its founder Christian Dior for Fall-Winter 1954-1955 – a controversial silhouette at the time as its flattened shape appeared, for some, unfeminine.
    Alice Pfeiffer, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The intention behind this final postcard may have been, yet again, to paint the fight for suffrage as absurd, to make suffragists seem like willful, unfeminine animals.
    Natalie Kinkade, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2024
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“Manlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manlike. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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