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Meanings of manful in English
Synonyms
Examples for "male"
Examples for "male"
1
Results: All health risk behaviours were common among male and female adolescents.
2
In the male, they are the testes; in the female, the ovaries.
3
However, only 7 per cent of registered nurses in Ireland are male.
4
Good young male-driven opening business this weekend looks to drop off rapidly.
5
They bring the grim reality of male violence into our living rooms.
1
The local maidens would no doubt appreciate my new, very manly, physique.
2
It elevates manly attributes; in fact, it constitutes the modesty of man.
3
The boots, and the kicking, and the general walloping make him manly.
4
We had our vain illusion; we were generous in our manly way.
5
The time passed merrily in skating, sleighing, and in other manly sports.
1
The King in the ballad is in a state of virile indecision.
2
However that may have been, Hugo was an attractive and virile baby.
3
There the Parliament does approach to the virile virtues of the pothouse.
4
But that house had foundations, and the virile virtues lived in it.
5
I love to hear you talk like that; it is so virile.
1
Still maintaining her manlike vise grip she relayed a surprising message, Mr.
2
There were a few flaking, vaguely manlike shapes that were disintegrating vampires.
3
To have neither superior, nor inferior, nor equal, united manlike to you.
4
Either, manlike, he forgot, or he was afraid of hurting my feelings.
5
The cave gave evidence of having harbored other manlike forms in the past.
Usage of manful in English
1
Full of these manful resolutions, he rose up early in the morning.
2
This is the first manful impulse I have had for two years.
3
The manful childishness, the childish manfulness of such a reply, were impenetrable.
4
I say we ought to make a manful fight in Mabel's behalf.
5
Always speak out manful, and straight, no matter what comes of it.
6
American money is free, bold, manful, generous and courageous to a fault.
7
At five-and-twenty I did not trust myself; but I took a manful resolution.
8
Such a one is like a manful knight, who does not avoid blows.
9
He might have used nicer language, perhaps, but his inner sense was manful.
10
Walsingham, more manful, stood to his post, but could not gain a hearing.
11
Ask Him to make you stout-hearted, patient, really manful, to fight against temptation.
12
The passionate gladness of the lover was wanting: the chivalrous valiancy of manful joy.
13
They met, as was the phrase of the time, "manful under shield."
14
Fauntleroy looked up with a manful effort at a smile.
15
And the manful little voice broke as the bunch shivered up against Sam's legs.
16
We had read Herodotus, and Gibbon, and Gillies, and done manful duty with Rollin.
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