menschy

adjective

as in chivalrous

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for menschy
  1. chivalrous
  2. classy
  3. high-minded
  4. unassailable
  5. unimpeachable
  6. moral
  7. virtuous
  8. guiltless
Adjective
  • In this illustration for a gossip column printed sometime in 1831-2, the writer George Sand is on the protective, even chivalrous arm of a man, but she’s also dressed in men’s clothes.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • Kinetic strikes have transformed cross-border drug smuggling from a relatively chivalrous cat-and-mouse chess game into a gritty fight.
    — Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 8 June 2026
Definition of chivalrous
Adjective
  • Later, Connor Metcalfe, a classy midfielder, strolled through a line of defenders and scored off his left foot.
    — Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 1 July 2026
  • This Quince top is classy, trendy, and wrinkle-resistant, which sounds pretty perfect to me.
    — Bria McNeal, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2026
Definition of classy
Adjective
  • Moreover, the average person seeing a super PAC ad will not know what was in those filings, but will simply see the high-minded sounding name of the PAC.
    — Richard J. Davis, New York Daily News, 21 June 2026
  • These are not the times for high-minded prestige series that require active viewing to appreciate every nuance, nor for thrillers and comedies exciting enough to quicken the pulse.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2026
Definition of high-minded
Adjective
  • Blatter looked unassailable right up to the moment he was toppled; his long-running heir apparent was also pushed out, which is how Infantino ended up as FIFA president in the first place.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026
  • Peru's right-wing presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori built what may be an unassailable lead on Tuesday as vote counting for the runoff election entered its final stages, official figures showed.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 24 June 2026
Definition of unassailable
Adjective
  • Relative to some of the real heavy hitters in this competition, Mexico are not stacked with unimpeachable star power.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • No doubt, dozens of them are doing extraordinary work, with genuinely heroic impact and unimpeachable integrity and efficacy.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 28 June 2026
Definition of unimpeachable
Adjective
  • But when a mysterious stranger begins blackmailing Neve, she is forced to compromise every legal, moral, and ethical obligation to gain an acquittal — or else risk her dark secrets being exposed.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 15 July 2026
  • Rather than uniting America’s founders, slavery divided the authors of both the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence as a moral issue.
    — Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 14 July 2026
Definition of moral
Adjective
  • Medieval women who repaired church vestments and poor people’s clothes were considered virtuous.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2026
  • This creates a virtuous loop where those better decisions then generate the data that improves models further.
    — Campbell Brown, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
Definition of virtuous
Adjective
  • In any year, in any culture, there are no antagonists (save for Nazis) better suited as action cinema heavies; rooting against child trafficking lowlifes is moral, easy, and best of all, a completely guiltless pleasure.
    — Andy Crump, IndieWire, 15 June 2026
  • Chick lit was flippant and fizzy and fun, above all, as effervescent and guiltless as a vodka soda.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 4 May 2026
Definition of guiltless
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“Menschy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/menschy. Accessed 18 Jul. 2026.

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