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• Sandra swooned over Pierce's manly jawline.From the entry jawline
• Traditionally, men sought to enhance the manhood of their young sons, so that they would become manly men, but in general, men no longer do so.From the entry manhood
• He does so with a manly mechanicalness, his discourse with God too personal for display.2023, Devika Rege, Quarterlife, Dialogue Books (2025), page 315. From the entry mechanicalness
• If he got elected, you could sign up for Trumpcare and feel manly too.2016, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. From the entry TrumpCare
• 'Styling wax doesn't get any manlier just because you put the word “hard” in front of it.2014, Nikki Logan, Awakened by His Touch, →ISBN, page 121. From the entry manscaper
• Peter was übersexual, gorgeous, sensitive, and holistic, yet manly—check his motorcycle!2009, Sandy Summers, Harry Jacobs Summers, Saving Lives: Why the Media’s Portrayal of Nurses Puts Us All at Risk, Kaplan Publishing…. From the entry ubersexual
• I would replace my jolly gait with a manly, wide-legged swagger.2007, Jim Tushinski, Jim Van Buskirk, Identity envy: wanting to be who we're not, page 73. From the entry sure up
• In all, death has manly associations through the left hand, priesthoods, and involved rituals.2007, Jay Miller, Keresan Pueblos and Chaco Canyon Speculations on Language Identity, Puebloan Cultures, and Southwestern Prehistory…. From the entry Keres
• Is it possible to like two boys at once, a manly boy and a boyly man?2007, Amber Kizer, Gert Garibaldi's Rants and Raves: One Butt Cheek at a Time, New York, NY: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 188. From the entry boyly
• Your shoulders and arms are still very manly and no amount of anglefraud will be enough to mask your waistline.2024 October 23, anonymous author, 4chan, /lgbt/. From the entry anglefraud
• Quite manly, actually, but not in a hairy-chest, mustachey way.2009, Julie Halpern, Into the Wild Nerd Yonder, New York, N.Y.: Feiwel and Friends, page 229. From the entry mustachey
• When Papillon makes his last impossible try for freedom they embrace with the tendresse of lovers, however manly and platonic.1974 February 2, Jonathan Cross, “Poor Butterfly”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 4. From the entry try
• But how do you sell the kids on athletics as a manly endeavour when the pre-game meal is pancakes?”1971 May 14, “Clancy Loranger”, in The Province, Vancouver, B.C., page 20. From the entry flapjacky
• So far only two or three of Shaw’s manly women have been recognizable human beings; the rest have been burlesques.1954, Arthur H. Nethercot, “V. The Female of the Species”, in Men and Supermen, Harvard University Press, 6. The Manly Woman, page 122. From the entry acrobatess
• She said she liked big, manly men.1914, P. W. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories, Archibald's Benefit. From the entry guffin
• Denis, had muffish ways, and that girls, especially spirited girls like Peggy, would infinitely prefer a more manly chap.1903, Katharine Tynan, A Red, Red Rose, page 150. From the entry muffish
• He no doubt cherishes the manly bonhomie of his chums, and romanticizes this kind of male bonding as eminently preferable to an afternoon with Hillary.1999 November 5, HOGARTH, “Is Bill Clinton Gay? If Not, Why Not?”, in alt.showbiz.gossip (Usenet). From the entry rump-ranging
• Or, as the movielore surrounding a manly male like John Wayne commands, "A man's gotta do (pause) what a man's gotta do."1994, Wayne Wilson, Sexuality in the Land of Oz. From the entry movielore
• His endearments were not amative or effete, but manly like Churchill's, and gave one a sense of being singled out, of having value.1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 97. From the entry amative
• That Antisthenes was the archegete of « the more manly section of the Stoic school » agrees with the suggestions evoked by the title Heracles.1986, Elenchos, page 339. From the entry archegete
• This seems to imply that by then at least one (") of Gellius' children was of negotious age, having taken the manly toga.1977 January-March, “Towards a chronology of Aulus Gellius”, in Latomus, volume 36, number 1. From the entry negotious
• “Gerald Croft is an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town.”1945, J. B. Priestley, chapter I, in An Inspector Calls. From the entry dandy
• It seems to be turning boy and girl again in that puerilization following its devotion to manly sports, as they are called.1906, “Editor's Easy Chair”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 113, number 678. From the entry puerilization
• Manly marrow must be protected at all costs: expend it on kicky-wickies and you will not only lose your masculinity but very likely become somewhat kicky-wicky yourself.1986, James L. Calderwood, The Properties of Othello, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry kicky-wicky
• And yet that Chink had the innocentest face in Utah; he might ha' stood for a picture of Adam before Eve cast a shadder on his manly brow.1906, Henry Wallace Phillips, Mr. Scraggs. From the entry shadder
• I have recently given some thought to manly sports, and I venture a few words in regard to their value in every scheme of all-round education.1902, Calvin M. Woodward, Popular Science Monthly, Domestic and intercollegiate athletics. From the entry give thought
• Tarnopol himself clearly states what he hopes to achieve in this description, declaring simply, “I wanted to be humanish: manly, a man,” thus tying his very humanity to his masculinity.2015, Maggie McKinley, Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-75. From the entry humanish

Meaning of manly

1. adjective Having the characteristics of a man.
2. adjective Having qualities viewed as befitting a man; masculine, manful, courageous, resolute, noble.
3. adverb In a way befitting a man.

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How do you use manly in a sentence?

Manly is used as an adjective and adverb. For example: “Sandra swooned over Pierce's manly jawline.”

What is a short sentence with manly?

“Mmm, the name sounded manly.”

What does manly mean?

Manly means having the characteristics of a man.