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UK
/mˈænli/
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[ US /ˈmænɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈmænɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
in a manful manner; with qualities thought to befit a man
having said her say Peggy manfully shouldered her burden and prepared to break up yet another home
ADJECTIVE
-
characteristic of a man
manly sports
a deep male voice - possessing qualities befitting a man
How To Use manly In A Sentence
- Thell Torrence's name may not be familiar to the average fight fan but he, along with a couple of others, is the premier teacher of the manly art in the USA.
- Then I saw how the ladies came alive at his gentlemanly attentions, how flattered they were by them.
- I'm not sure what Laurie from Manly Dorm might be referring to as hate mongering (although I see that talking about secession is divisive), but I'd like to point out it's not hateful to say the Bush administration is antidemocratic, plutocratic and militarily adventuristic. American Coastopia!
- She was older, a yellow-haired journeyman holist almost womanly in the fullness of her body. THE BROKEN GOD
- They took it in a very gentlemanly manner and directed me to a top-class agent. Times, Sunday Times
- Whatever the reason, I'll be wishing him well because, in our adversarial, interrogative culture, there's still a place for Parkinson's gentlemanly, self-effacing approach.
- True it is, that one can scarcely call _that_ education which teaches woman everything except herself, -- _except_ the things that relate to her own peculiar womanly destiny, and, on plea of the holiness of ignorance, sends her without one word of just counsel into the temptations of life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
- In frame 15 the referee warned Holt for ungentlemanly conduct, in this case swearing.
- For the cordwainer, a family to feed and educate in the domestic realm was as vital a component of the performance of his manly workplace duties as a hammer and a leather apron. 14 There was no perceived separation between his duties stitching leather and his duties feeding and educating his family. Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
- You may have noticed, Mrs Jordan, that we are finally around to respecting your womanly judgment.