What does machismo mean?
Machismo means (informal) An excessive masculine pride, exaggerated masculinity..
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/mɑːˈt͡ʃiz.moʊ/ · noun
(informal) An excessive masculine pride, exaggerated masculinity..
The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
With machismo, Christian nationalism and callousness toward the lives of US troops, they say, Hegseth’s puerile displays on TV are aimed at sating Trump’s desire for a warmonger worthy of the manosphere.
PSP [Puerto Rican Socialist Party] spokesperson Victor Lopez-Tosado told GCN: "[…] The party is mainly organized in a Latin American country where oppression, as a result of machismo, etc., to homosexuals is very common."
The Dominican Republic is traditionally regarded as a patriarchal island brimming with machismo — where, indeed, a recent U.S. ambassador was publicly vilified for bringing his husband to his posting. It was, and is, an unlikely place to find an enclave of acceptance. So what explains this unique tolerance?
Use machismo when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Machismo means (informal) An excessive masculine pride, exaggerated masculinity..
Common synonyms include machoism, machoness.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
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