Explore Machismo through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like masculinity. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Machismo in a sentence
Machismo meaning
- An excessive masculine pride.
- exaggerated masculinity
- characteristic, behavior or particularity of Male; Macheza.
Synonyms of Machismo
Using Machismo
- The main meaning on this page is: An excessive masculine pride. | exaggerated masculinity | characteristic, behavior or particularity of Male; Macheza.
- Useful related words include: masculinity.
- In the example corpus, machismo often appears in combinations such as: of machismo, the machismo, machismo and.
Context around Machismo
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 5 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Machismo
- In this selection, "machismo" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, man, personas, cheesecake, hasn, self and ego stand out and add context to how "machismo" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a whole machismo angle and and the machismo isn t. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "machismo" sits close to words such as abstention, actuarial and admonition, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with machismo
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
You can see so much machismo with even more resolution. (10 words)
Really saying he wasn’t a real man, a whole machismo angle. (12 words)
He also reproduced the strongman tendencies and political bossism he fought against, not to mention machismo. (16 words)
She’s the last to find out about this, but she has her hands full juggling an insecure British prime minister (Rory Kinnear) who is eager to bomb someone in retaliation in the hopes of injecting some machismo into his reputation. (41 words)
He felt alienated by the machismo and virtuosity of Australian rock ’n’ roll culture: “I’m like, well I’m never in a million years going to be able to play a guitar as well as Angus Young, or whoever. (40 words)
On a similar note, just the other day I was watching Punisher War Zone directed by a woman, Lexi Alexander and that movie had way more machismo and testosterone than either of the previous male-directed Punisher movies. (38 words)
Because it preserves an archaic tradition that caters to the mountain man machismo, self-reliant, homesteader-imagery, romantic bullcrap? (19 words)
Example sentences (20)
An archetypal embodiment of American myth-making, Wayne’s patriotic brand of machismo hasn’t necessarily aged well in these times of national introspection.
Because it preserves an archaic tradition that caters to the mountain man machismo, self-reliant, homesteader-imagery, romantic bullcrap?
Sentencing, Judge Mukherjee described it as 'aggressive driving at excessive speed' due to 'machismo, ego and testosterone'.
She’s the last to find out about this, but she has her hands full juggling an insecure British prime minister (Rory Kinnear) who is eager to bomb someone in retaliation in the hopes of injecting some machismo into his reputation.
You can see so much machismo with even more resolution.
And I like that, because I recall we had young guys in there, and they had this personas machismo about them.
But that’s part of some of the issues with our community is that the generational trauma and the machismo isn’t addressed.
Cheesecake Machismo has garnered rave reviews from locals as well as those willing to venture beyond the City limits.
He also reproduced the strongman tendencies and political bossism he fought against, not to mention machismo.
In the live-action Beauty and the Beast he was Gaston, a throbbing vein of musical machismo.
Like many women in the movement, Ms. Giovanni was confounded by the machismo that dominated it.
On a similar note, just the other day I was watching Punisher War Zone directed by a woman, Lexi Alexander and that movie had way more machismo and testosterone than either of the previous male-directed Punisher movies.
Social Democratic and Labour Party leader of the opposition Matthew O'Toole also backed the motion and and accused the DUP of being in a rush to "prove their anti-EU machismo".
So, over and over, with their David Brent machismo and their talent for inertia, officials and executives created the conditions in which terrified children would suffocate in the arms of their dying mothers.
The obvious counter to Cele’s machismo is that there is a danger of South American-style warfare between criminal gangs and the police, with the civilian population cowering in the middle.
But the movie, for all its retrograde politics and wham-bam machismo, can also be slick, silly fun — a giddy exercise in freewheeling nihilism, played to the hilt.
He felt alienated by the machismo and virtuosity of Australian rock ’n’ roll culture: “I’m like, well I’m never in a million years going to be able to play a guitar as well as Angus Young, or whoever.
Oliver Hermanus directs a study of two male soldiers in the South African army who are forced to hide their relationship in the face of the brutal machismo of the era.
Really saying he wasn’t a real man, a whole machismo angle.
According to Elizabeth Black of AlterNet, they do for more than one reason, but they all stem from one place: machismo.
Common combinations with machismo
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of machismo 7×
- the machismo 6×
- machismo and 5×
- anti-eu machismo 2×
- machismo of 2×