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What does virile mean?

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Adjective
  1. Being manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor.
  2. (grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine animate nouns.
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What Westerners construed as effeminate is in fact virile, an assertion of perfected control and independence.
There's nothing I hate more than a virile guy who is an effective patient listener.
The men's dorms are decorated in virile earth tones and the rugged wood and tweedy furniture gives you the feeling of being in a hunting lodge.
He vainly affects a George Raft hairdo and would-be virile gestures that go soft before they are half over.
Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart provide a virile, rough hewn soundtrack that gives the film an aural authority it barely deserves.
He deconstructs myths of the tough virile man, laying his anxieties bare on the floor.

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