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Meanings of prefer men in English

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Usage of prefer men in English
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I prefer men who are improper, and all that sort of thing.
Phineas Finn / The Irish Member
2
Will you not prefer men and the city to the savage woods?
The Works of Horace
3
It's as they say -you do prefer men!'
Dancer’s Lament
4
Perhaps that is why I usually prefer men.
December Love
5
How immensely nature seems to prefer men to women!-Butthis paper is happier than the writer.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 1
6
The rest of the month, a woman is more likely to prefer men with softer, smoother faces.
The Disposable Male
7
This, I imagine, is the reason why the natives entertain an idea that they prefer men to all other food.
The Book of Enterprise and Adventure / Being an Excitement to Re...
8
For instance, they prefer men of this age to youths, who in reality possess the highest form of human beauty.
Essays of Schopenhauer
9
Scientific research has found straight women tend to prefer men who are taller than they are, favouring dominance in their partners.
Radio NZ
10
YOU hear it time and time again, but now science is backing it up -women really do prefer men with big muscles.
News.com.au
11
If he wanted companionship he preferred men, for as companions women bored him.
The Hippodrome
12
She prefers men of the world to younger men, and buys expensive clothes, etc.
The new yorker
13
But Span's not always pleasant with complete strangers; and he prefers men, Miss Dunster.
From out the Vasty Deep
14
She preferred men's shoes, and usually wore the cast-offs of one of her sons.
The Song of the Lark
15
They preferred men who sang to men who groaned.
The Tree of Appomattox
16
Does that mean that they really preferred men?
Ebony
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