With the appearance of a suspicious character named Miss Mings, for instance, comes reason to wonder whether her gruff, masculine manner is a red herring or a clue.

They subverted their sexuality and behaved in a repressed, masculine manner to fit in.

Ryver was a bit too open for her taste, being short on sensitivity in the masculine manner.

He has an exaggeratedly large chin and masculine manner about him.

She could see that the HR director and his male assistant were watching her movements in a typically masculine manner, practically licking their lips.

Her overblown masculine manners and equally exaggerated attempts at feminine coquetry made her the target of derisioneven among her personal attendants.

It continues in a vigorously masculine manner.

There was an elderly man sitting next to Frances, and he and the conductor exchanged knowing glances in a superior masculine manner that absolutely infuriated her.

People who are gender-normative in appearance experience primarily behavioral gender policing, such as reminders to act in a more (or less) feminine or masculine manner.

Typically, lesbians are thought to be "butch", dressing in a more masculine manner than other women.