manlike's Usage Examples:

had seen much service in the Roman armies, and was a man of statesmanlike ability.

A workmanlike performance by the forward who fronted up.

The statesmanlike qualities displayed on this occasion were unavailing to avert the storm of indignation conjured up by Crispi's opponents in connexion with a charge of bigamy not susceptible of legal proof.

workmanlike side we have faced so far.

This statesmanlike persistence was rewarded by an uninterrupted series of triumphs, culminating in the recapture of Buda (1686) and Belgrade (1688), and the recovery of Bosnia (1689).

workmanlike job of describing the building while researching the dairy company that built it.

To Fenelon such employment was clearly uncongenial; and if he was rather too ready to employ unsavoury methods - such as bribery and espionage - among his proselytes, his general conduct was kindly and statesmanlike in no slight degree.

He gave some proofs of statesmanlike ability, and his eloquence was repeatedly called into requisition to pacify the Parisians.

One inks the type-forme and keeps a sharp look-out for any inequality of inking, and sees generally that the work is being turned out in a workmanlike manner.

Bluff, hearty, good-natured and simple in his habits, yet he always had a high idea of his own kingly dignity, and his really statesmanlike qualities often surprised foreign diplomats, who were deceived by his homely exterior.

Nor did he combine great statesmanlike qualities with exceptional ability in the field.

The most statesmanlike of his foreign enterprises, the attempt to take the piratical city of Algiers ill 1775 (see BARBARY PIRATES), was made with insufficient forces, was iii executed, and ended in defeat.

As Andrew became more and more sentient and manlike, the 'darky' treatment he was accorded by the humans in his life become more and more unnerving and distasteful.

Synonyms:

man-sized, manful, manly, masculine,

Antonyms:

feminine, unmanly, female child, woman, female,