“A man’s a man for a’ that,” sang the poet.  So he is, but not all the adjectives allusive to his state are equally complimentary. Masculine betokens the qualities and characteristics belonging to men. Male designates sex and is used of animals as well as human beings. Manly (used of boys as well as men) implies the possession of qualities worthy of a man, as strength, courage, sincerity, honesty, independence, or even tenderness. Manlike refers to qualities, attributes, or foibles characteristically masculine. Manful suggests the valor, prowess, or resolution properly belonging to men. Mannish (a derogatory word) indicates superficial or affected qualities of manhood, especially when inappropriately possessed by a woman. Virile applies to the sturdy and intrepid qualities of mature manhood.

Sentences:  The Chinese especially prize ____ children.  He was a
____ little fellow.  She walked with a ____ stride.  With ____ courage he
faced the crisis.  It was a ____ defense of an unpopular cause. ____
strength is the complement of female grace.  The old sailor still retained
the rugged and ____ strength of a man much younger.  With ____ bluntness
he told her what he thought.  Such gentleness is not weak; it is ____.  He
made a ____ struggle against odds.  “His ____ brow Consents to death, but
conquers agony.”  Now isn’t that assumption of omniscience ____?

Name, appellation, designation, denomination, title, alias.

A name is the word or words by which a person or thing is called or known.  If the name be descriptive or characterizing, even though in a fanciful way, it is an appellation.  If it particularizes an individual through reference to distinctive quality or nature, perhaps without employing any word the individual is usually known by, it is a designation.  If it specifies a class, especially a religious sect or a kind of coin, it is a denomination.  If it is an official or honorary description of rank, office, place within a profession, or the like, it is a title.  If it is assumed, as to conceal identity, it is an alias.

Assignment for further discrimination:  cognomen, patronymic, nom de plume, pseudonym.

Sentences:  Yes, it is a five-dollar gold piece, though one doesn’t
often see a coin of that ____ nowadays.  The Little Corporal is the ____
applied to Napoleon by his soldiers.  The eldest son of the king of England
bears the ____ of the Prince of Wales.  The government issues stamps in
various ____.  “That loafer” was his contemptuous ____ of the man who could
not find work.  “Duke” is the highest ____ of nobility in England.  The
crook was known to the police under many ____.  At the battle of Bull Run
Jackson received the ____ “Stonewall.”  “What’s in a[n] ____? that which we
call a rose By any other ____ would smell as sweet.”  The head of the
American government bears the ____ of President.  The Mist of Spring was
the little Indian maiden’s ____.  His ____ was Thornberg.

Old, ancient, olden, antique, antiquated, archaic, obsolete, venerable, immemorial, elderly, aged, hoary, decrepit, senile, superannuated.