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
These mighty archetypes of the Pacific Northwest breeze into his workplace at night, often logger-like in their lanky, chiseled machismo but with an icy, zappy, evasive air.
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Matt Thompson, SPIN, 3 Feb. 2025
Lynch spent his years making films that seeded purity with malignancy, machismo with vulnerability, teenage love with mythic importance.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 17 Jan. 2025
The first of them holds all of the story’s promise, as a tense prologue introduces us to a pre-teen kid named Blake, whose military-like father (Sam Jaeger, all menacing toxic machismo) is hell-bent upon teaching his son how to survive the world on his own.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 15 Jan. 2025
The disaffected machismo of Nadie seemed to exhaust the man taunting haters and hangers-on.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
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Matt Thompson, SPIN, 3 Feb. 2025
Lynch spent his years making films that seeded purity with malignancy, machismo with vulnerability, teenage love with mythic importance.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 17 Jan. 2025
The first of them holds all of the story’s promise, as a tense prologue introduces us to a pre-teen kid named Blake, whose military-like father (Sam Jaeger, all menacing toxic machismo) is hell-bent upon teaching his son how to survive the world on his own.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 15 Jan. 2025
The disaffected machismo of Nadie seemed to exhaust the man taunting haters and hangers-on.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for machismo
Recent Examples of Synonyms for machismo
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Instead of this material reality, the left often talks about masculinity as a cultural or ideological construct.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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Furthermore, the study highlights cultural contingencies, indicating that the detrimental effects of workplace aggression are amplified in cultures characterized by high individualism and masculinity.—
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Machismo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machismo. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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