as in masculinity
the set of qualities considered appropriate for or characteristic of men
a culture that prizes machismo and has rigid gender roles
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Recent Examples of machismo
While there are a few male employees at Olta, most everything — from tending the crops to distilling the liquid to bottling it up — is done by women, a rarity in the machismo world of Mexican spirits.
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Allyson Reedy, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025
Advertisement Gudsen's fractured identity—swaggering machismo versus devoted family man—might suggest dissociative identity disorder, but Lehane resists reducing him to a clinical label.
—Jp Mangalindan, Time, 15 Aug. 2025
This cuts several ways: Physical, a reawakening of desire and above all Paola’s rebellion against a soccer machismo where she is kept in the dark about her husband’s economic affairs, her own physical change and the true circumstances of her best friend’s death.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 29 July 2025
The actors provide the nuances, with stirring grace: just as Taylor-Johnson tempers Jamie’s own alpha machismo with a gentle, unfeigned paternal tenderness, so the extraordinary Comer gives Isla, even at her most despairing, an astonishing toughness of body, mind, and spirit.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 25 June 2025
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Allyson Reedy, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025
Advertisement Gudsen's fractured identity—swaggering machismo versus devoted family man—might suggest dissociative identity disorder, but Lehane resists reducing him to a clinical label.
—Jp Mangalindan, Time, 15 Aug. 2025
This cuts several ways: Physical, a reawakening of desire and above all Paola’s rebellion against a soccer machismo where she is kept in the dark about her husband’s economic affairs, her own physical change and the true circumstances of her best friend’s death.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 29 July 2025
The actors provide the nuances, with stirring grace: just as Taylor-Johnson tempers Jamie’s own alpha machismo with a gentle, unfeigned paternal tenderness, so the extraordinary Comer gives Isla, even at her most despairing, an astonishing toughness of body, mind, and spirit.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 25 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for machismo
masculinity
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These days, traditional definitions of masculinity are in tension with the need for a more expansive understanding of how to be a man in the world.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
21 Jan. 2026
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Toxic masculinity and homophobic locker rooms have been a problem in all major sports leagues, but hockey hasn’t had much success combatting that image in the public sphere.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Machismo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machismo. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.
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