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Recent Examples of matronly
Pinkham’s matronly smile, printed on labels and advertisements, became as well known as Mona Lisa’s.
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Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2025
Every few days, a matronly Spanish woman appeared at the fountain to give me a plastic bag with bananas and bread, and sometimes little packets of butter and jam.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
Transforming the elegant British, non-Jewish actress into the matronly prime minister required prosthetics for the cheeks, chin, nose and neck, plus contact lenses and a wig.
—Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2024
Mary’s childhood has all of the workhouse tragedy of a Dickens novel, plus insufficient scenes of Susan Lynch as a stern, matronly figure from her youth.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2025
Every few days, a matronly Spanish woman appeared at the fountain to give me a plastic bag with bananas and bread, and sometimes little packets of butter and jam.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
Transforming the elegant British, non-Jewish actress into the matronly prime minister required prosthetics for the cheeks, chin, nose and neck, plus contact lenses and a wig.
—Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2024
Mary’s childhood has all of the workhouse tragedy of a Dickens novel, plus insufficient scenes of Susan Lynch as a stern, matronly figure from her youth.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for matronly
Adjective
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On the left: a photograph of a blurred womanly figure, her white dress smeared into an avian or angelic wingspan, her head eerily effaced, allowing the forest behind her to show sharply through.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Dec. 2025
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Tarun would tease her, and my mother would look sorrowfully toward Kavitha, as if the two of them now shared some womanly burden.—
Madhuri Vijay,
New Yorker,
16 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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For men, engaging with cosmetic surgery or tweakments to enhance appearance was, until recently, perceived as a largely feminine endeavor.—
Hikmat Mohammed,
Vogue,
9 Jan. 2026
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Style them with dainty socks or sheer tights for a feminine, fashion-forward look, or keep things simple with clean, white ankle socks, denim, or an easy day dress.—
Nina Derwin,
Glamour,
8 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The injured man told them that a female friend had taken his truck and sold it to a man at a game room near East Berry Street and South Riverside Drive, police said.—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Nov. 2025
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Exposure 2025 was the 14th annual competition for Exposure Skate, a nonprofit organization that started out in 2012 to create opportunities for female skateboarders.—
Lonnie Burstein Hewitt,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Except for the presence of one adult man, the village felt almost like a matriarchal society.—
Aatish Taseer,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Oct. 2025
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But the show’s matriarchal power structures, which involved women like Mare forever cleaning up the messes their male relatives made, were carefully shaded.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Matronly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/matronly. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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