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Recent Examples of mannish Jennifer Cuvillier, style director at Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche Top trends: Business bags, larger-sized bags to fit a computer, which link with the office-business trend, novelty suiting, new oversize and powerful volumes, as well as with the mannish derby shoes silhouettes. Sandra Salibian, WWD, 17 Mar. 2025 Here, the suffragists portrayed are mannish and middle-aged, typical of many negative suffragist depictions, stereotyping them as unsexed spinsters. Natalie Kinkade, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2024 But Muir’s co-moderator, Linsey Davis, was a different case: Davis wore a mannish, gray suit jacket and struck a pose of martinet — almost schoolmarmish — solemnity. Armond White, National Review, 20 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for mannish
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Adjective
  • News voices in the 1970's tended to be somber, accent-less, and almost exclusively male.
    Scott Simon, NPR, 6 Sep. 2025
  • When first responders arrived, the male witness took his dogs home and his wife went to alert Samadi’s husband at their home, the reports said.
    Pam DeFiglio, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • His womenswear collection, introduced in 1975, quickly became known for easy shapes and masculine cuts with feminine qualities.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Set on a white-run construction site in West Africa, the story follows an edgy foreman anxiously awaiting his bride, whose presence meets resistance from a cocksure engineer clinging to the hyper-masculine status quo.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Dior’s collection referenced the H-line created by its founder Christian Dior for Fall-Winter 1954-1955 – a controversial silhouette at the time as its flattened shape appeared, for some, unfeminine.
    Alice Pfeiffer, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The intention behind this final postcard may have been, yet again, to paint the fight for suffrage as absurd, to make suffragists seem like willful, unfeminine animals.
    Natalie Kinkade, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2024

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“Mannish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mannish. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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