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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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With its elegant, womanly heel curving into a narrow point and its sensible perforated top designed to resemble a man's oxford dress shoe, the oxford pump is the shoe of a woman who stands between two worlds.—
Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
2 June 2026
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Marant launched her label and had her first show in 1994, quickly becoming a byword for a hip, womanly brand of boho chic.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
26 May 2026
Adjective
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Sybil, who spent her younger years beleaguered by the presence of her double, that emblem of feminine conformity named Désirée, never manages to perceive herself as anything but abnormal by comparison.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2026
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But when Cox was bullied by her peers for acting too feminine, her teachers and mother blamed the abuse on her.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
9 June 2026
Adjective
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As an openly gay man, Hockney explored erotic themes, giving youthful male bodies the same tender scrutiny that artists had been giving the female nude for centuries.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 June 2026
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Several people involved in the show’s production, most notably Saito, were initially opposed, believing that the mainstream young female audience the series was supposed to court would respond poorly to anything other than a heterosexual pairing.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
12 June 2026
Adjective
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Despite that underlying tension, kids play on the street outside while the large family has a dynamic like any other — noisily squabbling, joking, or in the case of the matriarchal grandmother, Mariam (Hiam Abbass), preparing a meal in a kitchen plagued by constant utility outages.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
15 May 2026
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In the supporting role of the matriarchal cookhouse keeper Maria was Denyce Graves, the legendary mezzo-soprano opera star.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
13 May 2026
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“Matronly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/matronly. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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