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Definition of man-child in English: man-childnoun 1An immature man. Example sentencesExamples - This intellectually deficient, petulent man-child was exactly what he appeared to be and his inept, arrogant administration is a perfect reflection of him.
- Sadly, the lumbering man-child is not ready to return.
- Mr. Bean is nothing if not the modern realization of the Faulknerian idiot manchild.
- Armed with this new special knowledge, our manchild again heads for home.
- In interviews recently, the eternal manchild has sounded… not quite dull, exactly, but aware of his receding popularity.
- Boy, being the office manchild sure is tough, isn't it?
- Bottoms acted a bit more like a dimwitted manchild, an effect further exacerbated by the fact that he was a 30-year-old man playing a teenager.
- In Talk To Her he is greatly aided by the performance of Camara who plays Benigno as an innocent man child devoid of guile of malice.
- This album is full of self-pitying dirges which give the impression of a slightly sad man-child sulking about girls in his bedroom.
- The discrepancy between sporting high-achiever and sulking man-child was never more evident.
- Mr. Howell, especially, treated the bumbling man-child like he was sub-human.
- It is proving a big leap, this transition from man-child to leading light in the athletics firmament.
- As the overgrown man-child Adam, he won hearts with his pursuit of Helen Baxendale through six series until her brutal connection with the front end of a truck.
- All Lily wanted was a boyfriend, what she got was a man-child on a mission.
- A man-child with a high-pitched voice, his brilliant acidic wit shields the petrified innocence of someone incompetent at everything except moving furniture and writing.
- Go vote and let the man-child know what you think of his performance so far.
- That is now his job, and in the case of the man-child sitting across from him, there was much he could have said.
- It felt good to throw someone completely off - and that was obviously the case here with this man-child.
- But you get the feeling that the wizardly manchild is indefatigable.
- The manchild smiles slightly, his face illumined from within by love.
- 1.1archaic A male child.
Example sentencesExamples - It was a man child that the girl had.
- For I will never destroy what I shall have brought forth, especially if it is a man-child.
- Holly describes it as the naked figure of a beautiful woman shrouded by her beating wings as she lifts the man-child away from some evil which has terrified him.
- She labors to bear a man, and among the waves of death she gives birth to a manchild, with pains of Hell.
- All men children of that time were accordingly named Samuel.
Definition of man-child in US English: man-childnoun 1An immature man. Example sentencesExamples - The manchild smiles slightly, his face illumined from within by love.
- Armed with this new special knowledge, our manchild again heads for home.
- Sadly, the lumbering man-child is not ready to return.
- All Lily wanted was a boyfriend, what she got was a man-child on a mission.
- Bottoms acted a bit more like a dimwitted manchild, an effect further exacerbated by the fact that he was a 30-year-old man playing a teenager.
- Mr. Howell, especially, treated the bumbling man-child like he was sub-human.
- That is now his job, and in the case of the man-child sitting across from him, there was much he could have said.
- But you get the feeling that the wizardly manchild is indefatigable.
- The discrepancy between sporting high-achiever and sulking man-child was never more evident.
- As the overgrown man-child Adam, he won hearts with his pursuit of Helen Baxendale through six series until her brutal connection with the front end of a truck.
- Boy, being the office manchild sure is tough, isn't it?
- It felt good to throw someone completely off - and that was obviously the case here with this man-child.
- A man-child with a high-pitched voice, his brilliant acidic wit shields the petrified innocence of someone incompetent at everything except moving furniture and writing.
- In interviews recently, the eternal manchild has sounded… not quite dull, exactly, but aware of his receding popularity.
- This intellectually deficient, petulent man-child was exactly what he appeared to be and his inept, arrogant administration is a perfect reflection of him.
- Mr. Bean is nothing if not the modern realization of the Faulknerian idiot manchild.
- This album is full of self-pitying dirges which give the impression of a slightly sad man-child sulking about girls in his bedroom.
- Go vote and let the man-child know what you think of his performance so far.
- It is proving a big leap, this transition from man-child to leading light in the athletics firmament.
- In Talk To Her he is greatly aided by the performance of Camara who plays Benigno as an innocent man child devoid of guile of malice.
- 1.1archaic A male child.
Example sentencesExamples - Holly describes it as the naked figure of a beautiful woman shrouded by her beating wings as she lifts the man-child away from some evil which has terrified him.
- For I will never destroy what I shall have brought forth, especially if it is a man-child.
- All men children of that time were accordingly named Samuel.
- She labors to bear a man, and among the waves of death she gives birth to a manchild, with pains of Hell.
- It was a man child that the girl had.
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