hypermasculine

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Recent Examples of hypermasculine Putin posing topless is the viral version of this public peacocking, but casual misogyny, carefully staged photo ops, and boastful, hypermasculine rhetoric also fit the bill. Erica Chenoweth, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2022 Laurie rejects the hypermasculine traits his grandfather enforces in favor of becoming one of the March girls, a radical concept for the time. Ivelisse Rodriguez, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2024 There are too many fans ogling rappers as racist, hypermasculine caricatures who don’t consider the anti-Blackness in demanding artists to live their raps at the expense of their life or freedom. Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2024 And Donald Trump keeps leaning into a hypermasculine approach to male voters in the final stretch before November. Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for hypermasculine
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypermasculine
Adjective
  • Saxon has consistently bullied Lochlan, mocking his alleged virginity and trying to reshape him into a more aggressive, macho male image.
    Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Shōgun hulu Sons of Anarchy Years: 2008-2014 Length: 7 seasons, 92 episodes Creator: Kurt Sutter Kurt Sutter’s macho reimagining of Hamlet in the world of a California motorcycle gang often gets a bad rap as nothing more than macho posturing.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • This double dose of slightly different modes of masculine aggression seems overly familiar.
    Armond White, National Review, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Intersex people have chromosomes and/or reproductive organs that do not fit into a binary male or female classification, while two-spirit refers to members of Indigenous cultures who identify as having both a masculine and feminine spirit.
    Colleen English, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In other words, rejected male fruit flies chug down alcohol as a strategy to get girls to like them.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The moment inducted Isaacs into the franchise's ever-growing club of male full-frontal scenes played for laughs, joining his onscreen son Patrick Schwarzenegger, season 2's Theo James, and season 1's Steve Zahn.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But this is a guide to the manliest gifts made for man men, menly objects ranging from the most classic of man totems to the most ridiculously hypermasculinized.
    Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Movies don't get more manly than Predator, which is positively brimming with bulging muscles, oneupmanship, relentless s— talk, chainguns, and some of Schwarzenegger's silliest one-liners since Commando.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In The Empire’s frame, residents of a coastal village in northern France — gruff, virile fisherman Jony (Brandon Vlieghe) and teenage tease Line (Lyna Khoudri) — reveal their oddball allegiance to extraterrestrial invaders.
    Armond White, National Review, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The Victorians, perhaps sensing that Britain’s empire could not stay young and virile forever, took this Romantic dread and ran with it.
    Matthew Redmond, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025

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“Hypermasculine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypermasculine. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.

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