menschy

adjective

Definition of menschynext
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
  • He's remained a core player ever since as the chivalrous yet sometimes hot-headed Nicholas Newman.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2024
  • This chivalrous gentleman was joined by a starstruck insect.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 24 June 2024
Definition of chivalrous
Adjective
  • The all-white design is classy and different from the typical black machines, and there’s decent power with the Intel Core i3 chipset.
    Simon Hill, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2024
  • All those Escada suits, a classy high-end designer brand built in the late 1970s, priced on Thursday at $80.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 15 Nov. 2024
Definition of classy
Adjective
  • They were incorporated into America’s often confused sense of itself as a nation built upon red-blooded masculinity and upon high-minded righteousness.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • If that high-minded argument doesn’t work, however, consider this: if Republicans adjourn Congress so Trump can make recess appointments, Democrats will unfortunately be far more likely to do the same at the next opportunity.
    Chris Coons, TIME, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of high-minded
Adjective
  • The return of the Rajapaksas to office with an unassailable mandate for their Sinhala-Buddhist nationalist politics and militaristic governing style spells disaster for human rights in Sri Lanka.
    Kate Cronin-Furman, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The win gives Britain an unassailable 3-1 lead in the best-of-five series.
    Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024
Definition of unassailable
Adjective
  • The argument could be bold, simple, and beautiful—not to mention legally unimpeachable.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Johnny goes undercover and infiltrates a group of surfers led by the enigmatic Bodhi (the unimpeachable Patrick Swayze), a spiritual soul who believes in living life on the edge.
    Travis Bean, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
Definition of unimpeachable
Adjective
  • These luminaries of the anti-corporate progressive Left are experts in moral inversion.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Do countries have a legal as well as a moral obligation to prevent a planetary disaster?
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of moral
Adjective
  • The founders did not foresee the emergence of political parties and their winner-take-all slates of electors, which make a mockery of all presumptions of virtuous choosing by a select few.
    Joseph J. Ellis, The Mercury News, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Here are ostensibly the most virtuous men in the world not only acting like normal human beings but also littering inside the headquarters of their faith.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of virtuous
Adjective
  • Many fans found its generally joyous treatment of Miranda’s guiltless affair with Che, a nonbinary comedian, in the first season off-putting.
    Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
  • In the wake of Franco’s death, in 1975, came the pacto del olvido, or pact of oblivion—a determination, enshrined in the Amnesty Law of 1977, to brush away the vestiges of former crimes and hence to move onward with a guiltless transition to democracy.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2021
Definition of guiltless
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