machismo
noun
, mə-, -ˈkēz-, -ˈkiz-, -ˈchiz-
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Synonyms & Antonyms for machismo
Synonyms
macho, manhood, manliness, masculinity, virility
Antonyms
femininity, muliebrity, womanhood, womanliness
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Out there on those long, empty stretches of seemingly lawless road, our country’s love affair with cars dovetailed perfectly with the machismo of the American West. — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, "Long Live Route 66," 19 July 2018 The wave of women speaking out is now threatening an entrenched machismo culture in a country where women are often catcalled, hissed at and harassed on the street. — Almudena Calatrava, The Seattle Times, "Wave of sexual abuse allegations shakes Argentina," 26 Dec. 2018 Those egos — the outsized, Hemingway-esque machismo of a certain type of male artist — are the subject at the heart of the film, even more than a changing Hollywood, or the echoes of Welles’ life. — Keith Phipps, The Verge, "Netflix’s Orson Welles revival is strange, fascinating, and frustrating," 1 Nov. 2018 And while there was a dearth of rom-coms for a while in Hollywood, the genre is once again on the upswing, and Noah sees it as a way to challenge the traditional machismo that Hollywood has been selling for far too long. — Ella Cerón, Teen Vogue, "Noah Centineo Wants You to Find Your Own Peter Kavinsky," 6 Sep. 2018 Above all, Reynolds’s machismo was the stuff of celluloid legend Though his career waned in the 1980s and ’90s, Reynolds continued to work constantly, racking up, by some reports, hundreds of film and television roles. — Aja Romano, Vox, "Burt Reynolds, ’70s icon and movie star, is dead at 82," 6 Sep. 2018 Well, the writing’s great at least, poking fun at the Bruce Campbell machismo archetype with its one-liners and self-serious plot. — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, "GOG.com's winter sale kicks off with free copies of LucasArts classic Full Throttle," 13 Dec. 2018 In 2017, founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick was ousted, after reports of Uber’s alleged culture of machismo and a blog post about its purported institutional sexism went viral. — Chavie Lieber, Vox, "Uber and Lyft are racing each other to go public. Here’s why.," 12 Dec. 2018 The two have made a career out of highlighting Chicket’s many, many failures, and part of what makes the page so compelling is that the two love to subvert displays of machismo. — Patricia Hernandez, The Verge, "When this Instagram couple has vicious fights, millions of people tune in," 31 Aug. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'machismo.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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