machismo
ma·chis·mo [ mä-ˈchēz-(ˌ)mō]
[mä-ˈchēz-(ˌ)mō]
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
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Recent Examples on the Web
//Sign O’The Times discusses AIDS, the heroin crisis, and the unnecessary machismo of the space race.
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Hasit Shah, Quartz, "Trump played “Purple Rain” at a rally in Minneapolis, and Prince’s estate is furious," 11 Oct. 2019
//Having won a landslide electoral victory, the Indian leader doesn’t need to respond in kind to the White House’s machismo just to please voters.
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Washington Post, "Trump’s India Trade Threat Demands Cool Heads," 3 June 2019
//Experts were interviewed on radio and TV in Israel on the problems with machismo in the country, and posts on social media agonized about how to fix them.
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Isabel Kershner, New York Times, "Rape Case That Roiled Israel Falls Apart, With 12 Suspects Freed," 28 July 2019
//Its growth comes as the franchise has swapped leads, putting a woman in the starring role and even, at times, portraying machismo as dangerously ignorant.
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Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, "‘Gears 5’ stars a woman behind the chainsaw gun. It’s a strong move," 13 Sep. 2019
//Neptune has become a spring break destination, in a boon to small-business owners, a nuisance to the town’s elite and a perfect backdrop for Veronica’s bitter jokes about toxic machismo.
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Judy Berman, Time, "Veronica Mars Is the Best TV Revival Since Twin Peaks," 19 July 2019
//Darville epitomized the kind of cheekily regressive sub-strain of ’70s machismo that Reynolds would embody for most of his life.
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Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, "6 performances that explain Burt Reynolds," 6 Sep. 2018
//The John Wayne machismo attitude of Cliff (Brad Pitt), an aging stuntman who defeats the arrogant, uppity Chinese guy harks back to the very stereotypes Bruce was trying to dismantle.
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Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar calls out Quentin Tarantino’s 'sloppy,' 'racist' depiction of Bruce Lee," 17 Aug. 2019
//Rap culture has always been powered by unbridled machismo, and one would be hard pressed to not find a gay slur embedded in the lyrics of any of the genre’s most famous architects.
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Los Angeles Times, "Lil Nas X came out, but has hip-hop? A macho culture faces a crossroads," 31 July 2019
First Known Use of machismo
circa 1948, in the meaning defined at sense 1
History and Etymology for machismo
Dictionary Entries near machismo
More Synonyms and Antonyms ofmachismo
the set of qualities considered appropriate for or characteristic of men
- a culture that prizes machismo and has rigid gender roles
More Definitions formachismo
often disapproving : an attitude, quality, or way of behaving that agrees with traditional ideas about men being very strong and aggressive