inner man
Americannoun
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a person's spiritual or intellectual being.
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the stomach or appetite.
a hearty meal to satisfy the inner man.
noun
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a man's mind, soul, or nature
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humorous the stomach or appetite
Example Sentences
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As a painter, she saw the part of the surface that revealed the inner man — the bourgeois fop within the fiery revolutionary.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2020
He was always affable but also very private and he never gave much away: those of us who worked with him were allowed to know little of the inner man.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 12, 2010
Elliott described his friend’s “supreme talent for deception” but saw the inner man simply as “schizophrenic.”
From Washington Post
The inner man bears the same punctuation: Victim or victimizer?
From Time Magazine Archive
Work would relieve his cramped arms, but it would also increase the pangs of the inner man.
From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
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