0 male behaviour that is strong and forceful, and shows very traditional ideas about how men and women should behave --
1 strong pride in behaving in a way that is thought to be typically male, esp. by showing strength and power --
Having suffered from this bad attack of ministerial machismo, he is now trying to justify it.
Sometimes we do not help ourselves when we hide our real motives for wanting a concession, out of pride, machismo or embarrassment.
The welfare of children must come first, not nationalism, not machismo but the welfare of the children.
The great machismo exercise of being beastly to local government demanded more.
With that particular brand of ebullient machismo which he has made his own, he described the tough stand that he would take on the issue.
However, machismo is the same whether it comes from the upper class or from the working class.
I venture to say that this definition, while long on ideological machismo, is perhaps a little lacking in intellectual rigour.
Every interview has to be a demonstration of interviewer machismo.
