mannish
adjective
being typical or suggestive of a man rather than a woman.
mannishness
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a word derived from
mannish.
Example Sentences
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For thousands of years and right now in particular, political leadership has been an exploration of the varieties of masculinity, a theater where the ways of mannishness are staged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2017
By the entrance he met a fellow-Jacobean, one Drake, whose accentuated mannishness, however disagreeable in the proximity of the school, might be valuable at the Exhibition.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton
No affectation, nor pedantry, nor mannishness to mar the effect.
From Memories and Anecdotes by Sanborn, Kate
Here the poor Abbess, indignation overcrowding her borrowed mannishness, began to sniffle and to assert that the speaker was a faithless pig, but Villon, unheeding her whimpers, went on with his tale.
From If I Were King by McCarthy, Justin
The sense of the outline of his shoulders and his comforting black mannishness so near to her brought her almost to tears.
From Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 by Richardson, Dorothy Miller
