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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 The dialogue between masculine and feminine was one of the most present trends, alternating romantic flower prints and baby-doll apparel as seen at Chloé, Loewe, Acne, Dries Van Noten; and tomboy to mannish attitude and clothes such as Saint Laurent and Loewe. Rhonda Richford, WWD, 2 Oct. 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
  • There is no word yet on other casting picks, but the film will surely provide excellent roles for a variety of stars, including Marianne, and a trio of male suitors the sisters come to know, including Edward Ferrars, Colonel Brandon, and John Willoughby.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 25 June 2025
  • While the male costars were snubbed for any major award nominations that year for the film, actress Kirsten Dunst scored a Golden Globe best supporting actress nod for her portrayal in the film.
    Jay Stahl, USA Today, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • However, the 49-year-old actress noted that her own personal style tends to skew more toward edgy and masculine looks, much to the displeasure of her kids.
    EW.com, EW.com, 25 June 2025
  • The alpha as a crude avatar for masculine power makes perfect sense in that context.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 20 June 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 2 Jul. 2025.

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