machismo
noun
ma·chis·mo
mä-ˈchēz-(ˌ)mō 
mə-,
-ˈkēz-
-ˈkiz-,
-ˈchiz-
1
: a strong sense of masculine pride : an exaggerated masculinity
athletes displaying their machismo
2
: an exaggerated or exhilarating sense of power or strength
the administration's machismo in pushing for a new treaty
Examples of machismo in a Sentence
a culture that prizes machismo and has rigid gender roles
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Lynch spent his years making films that seeded purity with malignancy, machismo with vulnerability, teenage love with mythic importance.
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Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 17 Jan. 2025
The first of them holds all of the story’s promise, as a tense prologue introduces us to a pre-teen kid named Blake, whose military-like father (Sam Jaeger, all menacing toxic machismo) is hell-bent upon teaching his son how to survive the world on his own.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 15 Jan. 2025
The disaffected machismo of Nadie seemed to exhaust the man taunting haters and hangers-on.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
The spectre of their conflict added a dash of machismo to a night that was otherwise a victory lap for women.
—Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
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Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 17 Jan. 2025
The first of them holds all of the story’s promise, as a tense prologue introduces us to a pre-teen kid named Blake, whose military-like father (Sam Jaeger, all menacing toxic machismo) is hell-bent upon teaching his son how to survive the world on his own.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 15 Jan. 2025
The disaffected machismo of Nadie seemed to exhaust the man taunting haters and hangers-on.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
The spectre of their conflict added a dash of machismo to a night that was otherwise a victory lap for women.
—Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for machismo
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“Machismo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/machismo. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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