circumvent, overreach, trick, outsmart, outwit, outdo, go one better, get the better of; Inf. finagle, Inf wangle, gerrymander,
maneuverer, n. logistician, planner, strategist, tactician, plotter, politician; intriguer, wire-puller, Sl. wheeler-dealer, Machiavelli, machinator; slyboots, snake, artful dodger, schemer, fox; mastermind, promoter, jobber,
manful, adj. masculine, virile; brave, courageous, bold. See - manly (defs. 1-3).
mange, n. rot, Pathol, scabies, itch, rash, Pathol, psoriasis, Pathol, psora, Sl. creeping crud; eruption, breaking out, Pathol, exanthema,
manger, n. trough, feeding-trough, box, rack, crib, hutch, tray.
mangy, adj. 1. scabby, itchy, scaly, diseased; psoriatic, exanthematic, erupted, broken out.
2. contemptible, base, odious, Archaic, caitiff; disgraceful, disreputable, ignominious; mean, nasty, hateful, spiteful, Inf. ornery, vicious; low, despicable, vile, scurvy, repulsive.
3. squalid, wretched, miserable, abject, dire; shabby, seedy, poor, sorry, trashy, sordid, sleazy, scrubby; slovenly, unkempt, unclean, foul, dirty, filthy, dingy, mucky; ramshackle, run-down, deteriorated, dilapidated.
manhandle, v. maul, rough up, Sl. knock around or about, Sl. give one the works; batter, beat, beat up, pound, pommel, pummel, thrash, trounce, pelt, Sl. clobber, Archaic, belabor; hit, strike, smite, slap, smack, cuff, buffet, Inf. slug, Inf. whack, Inf. wallop, Sl. belt; harm, damage, bruise, hurt, pain, injure; mishandle, mistreat, maltreat, ill-treat, abuse, ill-use, Sl. kick around; Inf. paw; bully, trample upon, bullyrag, hector.
man-hater, n. misanthrope, misanthropist, hater of mankind, cynic; recluse, hermit, anchorite, loner, solitary; eremite, ascetic, monk.
manhole, n. hole, opening, hatch, hatchway, scuttle, trap door.
manhood, n. 1. virility, manliness, mannishness, masculinity, masculineness, maleness, (in Hispanic cultures) machismo.
2. manfulness, spirit, pluck, firmness, grit; hardihood, fortitude, strength, force, resolution, determination, will; indomitableness, indomitability, courage, mettle, stamina, endurance, Sl. guts, intestinal fortitude; boldness, daring, audacity, bravery, valor, heroism.
mania, n. 1. craze, rage, urge, compulsion, desire, craving, cacoifthes; yen, yearning, Sl. letch, infatuation, passion, obsession, fixation, fascination, preoccupation; fanaticism, monomania.
2. enthusiasm, excitement, furor; commotion, uproar, hullabaloo, Inf. to-do.
3. Psychiatry, frenzy, franticness, furor, delirium, phrenitis, anoesis, hysteria; ranting, raving, storming, foaming at the mouth, wildness, violence.
maniac, n. 1. madman, lunatic, Sl. loony, Inf. crackpot, Sl. kook, Sl. nut, Sl. screwball, bedlamite; psychotic, Sl. sickie, psychopath, schizophrenic, Sl. schizo; paranoiac, Psychiatry, manic-depressive, Psychiatry. megalomaniac, pyromaniac, Psychol, kleptomaniac, dipsomaniac, automaniac.
2. fanatic, monomaniac, enthusiast, zealot, crank, phrenetic; energumen, demoniac; eccentric, nonconformist. -adj. 3. maniacal, hysterical, madding, Archaic. wood, delirious; frantic, frenzied, frenetic; raving, ranting, foaming at the mouth. See - maniacal, maniacal, adj. 1. crazy, crazed, lunatic, lunatical,