Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the masculine manner; like a man.
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- adverb In a
masculine manner.
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Examples
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(Oh, and on a side note, when Sonia Simone interviewed me for the Third Tribe, she described a certain masculinely pushy internet marketing technique as “masturbatory,” and I was like “Yeah, it’s awesome, right?” and then I realized she meant it in a negative way.
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And in SF you had Alice Sheldon writing so "masculinely" as James Tiptree Jr. that Silverberg argued she couldn't possibly be a woman.
MIND MELD: Is There Gender Imbalance in Genre Fiction Publishing? 2008
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If you are interested in dressing more femininely, as opposed to masculinely, then look at the collars.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Joan decided that she had been helped to identify the accent by the short German-looking moustache that did not conceal the mouth and its full red lips, which would have formed a Cupid's bow but for some harshness or severity of spirit that had moulded them masculinely.
Chapter 14 2010
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As he dozed off he had time only for one fleeting thought, and he grinned with vicious pleasure at the picture of John Bellew in the days to follow, masculinely back-tripping his four hundred pounds up
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If you are interested in dressing more femininely, as opposed to masculinely, then look at the collars.
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Note: I am in no way saying that the solution is to pretend we don't know whether a given friend of ours is male or female or even whether they present masculinely or femininely.
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Hume and Tapper are much alike in manner and presentation (gruff, acerbic, masculinely brunette), which would make for a smooth generational transition.
Tarzan No Understand Words White House Say: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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Hume and Tapper are much alike in manner and presentation (gruff, acerbic, masculinely brunette), which would make for a smooth generational transition.
James Wolcott's Blog Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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I experience privilege within the queer community: I am a dyke and I am masculinely gendered; I am white, I am upper-middle-class, and graduated from an elite college.
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005
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