How to Use mannish in a Sentence

mannish

adjective

• She had a deep and rather mannish voice.
• She was wearing a hat and mannish clothing.
• Stylish — yes, but in her opinion, her jaw gave her face a mannish air.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 16 May 2018
• Her mannish mixed-print shirt was a cool foil to her ladylike split skirt.
  — Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2018
• High-necked blouses were paired with prim midiskirts and mannish jackets for a look that’s a little Left Bank meets SoHo.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2019
• The outfits were finished off with mannish brogue shoes or furry flat slippers.
  — Gregory Katz, The Seattle Times, 17 Feb. 2018
• But no, instead, this childish man (or mannish child?) doubled down.
  — Kathleen Parker, The Denver Post, 7 June 2017
• Heavy boots toughened up flirty dresses, a slouchy coat covered a sequin skirt and a mannish boiler suit came in a dusty rose silk.
  — Alice Tate, Marie Claire, 18 Feb. 2013
• Weirdly, Helen takes her up on the offer, leaving the body for someone else to worry about and trading her own mannish wardrobe for Mary's posh togs.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 May 2018
• The younger woman, watching the older, is proud and confident (and also slightly mannish).
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2018
• Over the years, writers have pondered why the men stayed in the first place, calling Gunness' appearance unwomanly and mannish.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 7 July 2021
• Nadia Krasteva’s Maddalena, tarted up to look like a drag queen, with a retinue of floozies, supplies hefty mezzo tones, even mannish chest voice.
  — Dallas News, 10 Oct. 2022
• Beckham’s mannish blazer gained a feminine line thanks to a waist-cinching belt and the silhouette worked nicely with skinny trousers.
  — Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 12 June 2018
• Likewise, the Metallica casting sets a tone for a new breed of Brioni man: more overtly mannish, and provocatively so — tattoos, biceps and all — much like O’Shea himself.
  — Alice Cavanagh, New York Times, 5 July 2016
• For all its agonies, madness awakens in its sufferers the gift of fairy sight, access to those deepest truths covered up by centuries of mannish toil and industry.
  — Jason Kehe, Wired, 21 Sep. 2020
• Baldwin’s body-skimming dress and mannish blazer combo was a feminine alternative to the trouser suit.
  — Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2017
• Likewise, there’s nothing inherently mannish about strumming electric guitars or banging on drums except that the culture has made it so.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 11 Nov. 2022
• Annie Callanan, director of program and visitor services for the house, says that Susan, hurt by depictions of suffragettes as ugly and mannish, took pains with her appearance and urged other suffragettes to do the same.
  — Sophia Dembling, Smithsonian, 25 Jan. 2017
• Early 20th-century writers, who failed to identify her as a lesbian, sometimes described her as strangely mannish, asexual—and odd.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2022
• Obama took a similar approach to her beachwear, which felt like a modern version of Jackie Kennedy's effortless beach style: distressed denim cutoffs, a mannish button-down, and a coordinating white bikini.
  — Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 16 Jan. 2018
• White suffragist suits were not only designed for starkness, but to emphasize femininity that many labeled suffragists as devoid of, undercutting them as mannish and ugly.
  — Ko Bragg, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2021
• Beckham has often played with menswear, offsetting tuxedo jackets with Elizabethan blouses or cutting traditionally mannish wools in more fitted silhouettes.
  — Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 22 May 2018

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024