manfully
- a word derived from manful.
Example Sentences
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The USA defended manfully, including a period when they were three against five with two in the penalty box.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026
Criticized by Yankee pacifists for resorting to violence, Clay replied, “how then can you ask me to go unarmed and yet manfully vindicate those doctrines which every where have been denounced with death?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
Not having been criticized for bunkering during a protest, Hoover of course had no desire to manfully parade in public.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2020
Holding the fort in the name of… well, himself really, Norman Mailer struggles manfully to fend off a gang of marauding brainy women including Susan Sontag, Germaine Greer and Diana Trilling.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2017
The upper lip he had so manfully ordered to be scraped that morning was now beaded with the sweat of nausea.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
