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
She was always exact and neat in her dress, and its mannishness stood her in good stead during her month's imprisonment.
From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
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 Justin McCarthy
In his young mannishness he was quite sure there was no danger of falling in love; of course such a thing would be wildest folly.
From A Little Girl of Long Ago by Amanda Minnie Douglas
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 Dorothy Miller Richardson
