laddishness

Male friends were either just dismissive or lapsed into laddishness.

Many girls adopt a kind of female laddishness because they confuse sexual equality with identical behaviour.

We need a new word for laddishness, for this is womanishness nowadays.

But laddishness doesn't come naturally to him.

Thanks to their efforts, and to the fact that self-indulgence is a lot easier than self-control, laddishness has become the new norm.

For all the laddishness that Oasis projected, there's a strong escapist tone to their music and lyrics.

It established the band's popularity, appealing both to the then-current tendency for "laddishness" and to older rock fans.

Yet toning down the laddishness casts the once-flimsy central relationships in a newly affectionate light.

Not for him the honking laddishness and leering vulgarity of Mr Balls.

Despite his reputation for laddishness, half his audience is female, and despite pushing 40 he is popular with young listeners.

They like his occasional laddishness.”

Its laddishness meant it was also seen as non-serious by enthusiasts who prefer to solely focus on the engine/handling modification side of car tuning.

This contrast suggests a blend of laddishness and recklessness tinged with a desire to look innocent, sweet and vulnerable.

Elton's emphasis on women's health issues (the horrors of cervical smears etc) is an antidote to his underlying laddishness.

But such men could never wear--can barely stomach--headgear with the inelegance, the laddishness, the rakishness, the nerve of a baseball cap, especially one worn backward.

Despite the success of the Kay campaign, the perceived "laddishness" of the advertisements were criticised by rival brewer Interbrew as hindering sales of beer among women.

There's a fine line between libertinism and laddishness, and when you've got an image as carefully cultivated as theirs, it pays to be especially careful not to cross it.

The braggadocio rhetoric of Tony Hancock; the ingratiating laddishness taken ad delirium by Ricky Gervais in The Office ...

Having been sentenced to death in the mid-Morrissey period for the hanging offence of reinventing laddishness (see The Farm, Flowered Up), they bowl on stage like men released from the Tower.

In keeping with the series's admirably nostalgic devotion to FHM-era laddishness, tonight's show is bookended by a bad joke about a handbrake and a game of rugby played with Kia Cee'ds.

But for all the boorishness and laddishness that tens of thousands of men drinking hundreds of thousands of beers were inevitably going to bring with them, overall this has been an exceptionally good-natured tournament, especially the Ukrainian half of it.

Like its predecessor “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” confects a smoky, overcast Victorian world, infuses it with an air of jocular, hairy laddishness and stages a lot of fights in fussy and tiresome slow motion.

The columnists of the Mail and the Asian bourgeois intellectuals (such as Tariq Modood) are now united in their fear that Asian youths have been infected by white working-class 'laddishness', and that they are no longer reliably well-behaved.