as in masculinity
the set of qualities considered appropriate for or characteristic of men
a culture that prizes machismo and has rigid gender roles
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Recent Examples of machismo
The kiss and the ensuing fallout prompted a moment of reckoning in Spain, where progress in gender equality — women’s soccer in particular — have run up against a culture of machismo.
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José Bautista, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Paquita la del Barrio, the Mexican singer-songwriter beloved for her blistering critiques of men and machismo culture, died Monday.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 17 Feb. 2025
There was more this machismo kind of attitude that everyone had.
—Cathy Applefeld Olson, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Lynch spent his years making films that seeded purity with malignancy, machismo with vulnerability, teenage love with mythic importance.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 17 Jan. 2025
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José Bautista, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Paquita la del Barrio, the Mexican singer-songwriter beloved for her blistering critiques of men and machismo culture, died Monday.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 17 Feb. 2025
There was more this machismo kind of attitude that everyone had.
—Cathy Applefeld Olson, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Lynch spent his years making films that seeded purity with malignancy, machismo with vulnerability, teenage love with mythic importance.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 17 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for machismo
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“Machismo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machismo. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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