Definition of manly

"manly" in the adjective sense

1. manly, manful, manlike

possessing qualities befitting a man

2. male, manful, manlike, manly, virile

characteristic of a man

"a deep male voice"

"manly sports"

"manly" in the adverb sense

1. manfully, manly

in a manful manner with qualities thought to befit a man

"having said her say Peggy manfully shouldered her burden and prepared to break up yet another home"

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Quotations for manly

I'll dream no more - by manly mind
Not even in sleep is will resigned.
My midnight orisons said o'er,
I'll turn to rest, and dream no more. [ Scott ]

Opposition strengthens the manly will. [ Alcott ]

It is a manly act to forsake an error. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is a misery,
Unless our weakness apprehend it so:
We cannot be more faithful to ourselves,
In anything that's manly, than to make
Ill-fortune as contemptible to us
As it makes us to others. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

A six-foot suckling, mincing in its gait.
Affected, peevish, prim and delicate;
Fearful it seemed, tho' of athletic make,
Lest brutal breezes should so roughly shake
Its tender form, and savage motion spread
O'er its pale cheeks, the horrid manly red. [ Churchill ]

Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan. [ James A. Garfield ]

No radiant pearl which crested fortune wears,
No gem that, twinkling, hangs from beauty's ears,
Not the bright stars which night's blue arch adorn,
Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn.
Shine with such lustre as the tear that breaks
For other's woe, down virtue's manly cheeks. [ Darwin ]

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do. [ Emerson ]

What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence? [ Michelet ]

'Tis great - 'tis manly to disdain disguise. It shows our spirit, or it proves out strength. [ Young ]

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! [ Burke ]

Truthfulness is not so much a branch as a blossom of moral, manly strength. The weak, whether they will or not, must lie. [ J. Paul F. Richter ]

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair or manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly, and never seeking her own. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

These two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together, - manly dependence and manly independence, manly reliance and manly self-reliance. [ Wordsworth ]

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again; wisely improve the present, it is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain! [ Thackeray ]

Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon. [ Hillard ]

manly in Scrabble®

The word manly is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters manly:

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In manly

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manly in Words With Friends™

The word manly is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters manly:

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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word manly

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In manly

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Words within the letters of manly

2 letter words in manly (7 words)

3 letter words in manly (7 words)

4 letter words in manly (4 words)

5 letter words in manly (1 word)

manly + 1 blank (6 words)

Words containing the sequence manly

Words that start with manly (1 word)

Words with manly in them (1 word)

Word Growth involving manly

Shorter words in manly

an man

ma man

Longer words containing manly

gentlemanly ungentlemanly

humanly inhumanly

humanly superhumanly

seamanly

showmanly

sportsmanly

statesmanly

unmanly

womanly unwomanly

yeomanly