Crossword-Solution: VIRILE 6 letters, 19 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Virile a. Having the nature, properties, or qualities, of an adult
man; characteristic of developed manhood; hence, masterful; forceful;
specifically, capable of begetting; -- opposed to womanly, feminine,
and puerile; as, virile age, virile power, virile organs.

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VIRILE anagram LIVIER

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physically strong and masculine 1 answer
having the traditional male characteristics of physical strength and a high sex drive 1 answer
Strong and energetic 1 answer
Robustly masculine 1 answer
Dripping with machismo 1 answer
Full of testosterone 2 answers
Studly 2 answers
Hairy-chested 3 answers
Like Mr. America 4 answers
Two-fisted 5 answers
mannish 6 answers
Macho 8 answers
masculine 9 answers
manlike 13 answers
potent 24 answers
__ male 30 answers
Manly 35 answers
Forceful 66 answers
Essential 89 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with VIRILE (5)

She _was_ all right, then? You weren’t disappointed?” “Disappointed? My dear Archie, that’s the high voice we dream of; so pure and yet so virile and human.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
Clayton was the type of Englishman that one likes best to associate with the noblest monuments of historic achievement upon a thousand victorious battlefields—a strong, virile man—mentally, morally, and physically.
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
And in some strange, inexplicable way this brutality made Trina all the more affectionate; aroused in her a morbid, unwholesome love of submission, a strange, unnatural pleasure in yielding, in surrendering herself to the will of an irresistible, virile power.
McTeague Frank Norris 2006
That she was a very different woman from Christina Light did not at all prove that she was less a woman, and if the Princess Casamassima had gone up into a high place to publish her disrelish of a man who lacked the virile will, it was very certain that Mary Garland was not a person to put up, at any point, with what might be called the princess’s leavings.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006
Greatest of autobiographers, he extenuates nothing: you see the whole man with his worst faults and best qualities; weaknesses accentuated by the energy with which they are charactered, apparent waste of mental forces bent on solving the insoluble, inherited tastes and prejudices, altruistic impulses and virile passions, egoism and idealism, all strangely mingled and continually warring against each other, until from the death-throes of spiritual conflict issued a new birth and a new life.
The Forged Coupon and Other Stories Leo Tolstoy 1995

Quotes with VIRILE (3)

This was Linc at his most elemental. This was cave man stuff. Potently male. Potently virile. Hot. As. Fuck.
Amy Andrews Playing the Player
Ask any Ferrari, Porsche or Ray-Ban salesperson about their average customer and you will very likely hear that he is not, as the adverts would have us believe, a virile young footballer with shiny hair, a rippling six pack and a trouser pouch like a new punch bag. He is, in fact, a middle-aged bloke wearing more chins than he started life with and carrying the clear evidence of forty years of beer and pies slung across his midriff.
Richard Hammond Or Is That Just Me?
Men have committed the greatest crime against women. Insidiously, violently, they have led them to hate women, to be their own enemies, to mobilize their immense strength against themselves, to be the executants of their virile needs.
Helene Cixous The Laugh of the Medusa
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 47 times in crossword archives (1971–2022).