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Synonyms for manlike

of, characteristic of, or befitting the male sex

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Synonyms for manlike

possessing qualities befitting a man

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characteristic of a man

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resembling human beings

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Truly, though this girl did not yet mean quite that, nevertheless she meant much to him--more, now, than ever, as he rode beside her, glancing at her as often as he dared, she in her corduroy riding-habit, so bravely manlike, yet so essentially and revealingly woman, smiling, laughing, talking, her eyes sparkling, the flush of a day of sun and summer breeze warm in her cheeks.
As we cruised slowly along, two of the boches again saw what they believed to be a man, or manlike creature, watching us from a fringe of trees a hundred yards inland, and shortly after we discovered the mouth of a small stream emptying into the bay: It was the first stream we had found since leaving the river, and I at once made preparations to test its water.
There were a dozen or more of the hairy, manlike creatures upon the ground in a little glade.
Manlike, they had told me to go to bed and sleep, as if a woman can sleep when those she loves are in danger!
I explain so,--by this manlike love of truth,--those excesses and errors into which souls of great vigor, but not equal insight, often fall.
In the center of the clearing below her, clearly visible in the bright moonlight, she saw fully twenty huge, manlike apes--great, shaggy fellows who went upon their hind feet with only slight assistance from the knuckles of their hands.
One of the world's most social-media savvy people wasted no time in greeting their nation's special guest, China's President Xi Jinping, on Tuesday launching a flurry of memes featuring a fictional manlike teddy bear.
After the masses, there are the critics, opponents and adversaries of utopia, who are divided into three main categories: correctable Navabet, uncorrectable Navabet and Bahimiyun (manlike beasts).
EBB found Martineau's mesmerism case incredible, for example, largely because Martineau was not, like the stereotypical mesmeric subject, a "weak-minded woman" with a "nervous affection" but rather "the most manlike woman in the three kingdoms" (Elizabeth Barrett to Mrs.
You're chasing a toddler, blind through the shopping mall, you're Tiresias, prophet, between earth and myth, god and manlike thing, you've given everything away to own these parts of him, his eyes and hair, the certainty that they are yours, or so they tell you.
It also did not mean that male daughters or female husbands had to become 'manlike' (Amadiume 1987: 186).
(19) Richard Preston, "The Witiko: Algonkian Knowledge and Whiteman Knowledge," in Manlike Monsters on Trial: Early Records and Modern Evidence (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1980), 126-127; Lou Marano (1982, 386).
Described as one of the most remarkable women of her age, she was "manlike and tall of stature, liberal and bountiful, a sure friend and a bitter enemy", according to Alfred John Webb's A Compendium of Irish Biography.
Eliza is mute but she ends up communicating with a strange marine manlike beast under research at her workplace.
Manlike by Milena Ugren and George Koulas is inspired by the stories of women who had to become men.