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  • noun Alternative spelling of manstealer.

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Examples

  • Indeed, Mary is surrounded by these gossiping women, virtually a who's who of female MGM talent at the time the film was made: the nosy Edith (Phyllis Povah), naïve young Peggy (Joan Fontaine), the brash four-time divorcee Countess de Lave (Mary Boland), and the foxy former chorus girl Miriam (Paulette Goddard), a more benign man-stealer than the blatantly gold-digging Crystal.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Ed Howard 2008

  • Indeed, Mary is surrounded by these gossiping women, virtually a who's who of female MGM talent at the time the film was made: the nosy Edith (Phyllis Povah), naïve young Peggy (Joan Fontaine), the brash four-time divorcee Countess de Lave (Mary Boland), and the foxy former chorus girl Miriam (Paulette Goddard), a more benign man-stealer than the blatantly gold-digging Crystal.

    The Women (1939) Ed Howard 2008

  • They were right, and from the Bight of Benin to the Coast of Cuba the man-stealer will tremble.51

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • They were right, and from the Bight of Benin to the Coast of Cuba the man-stealer will tremble.51

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • This Gordon is a veteran slave-trader, a man-stealer and man-slayer by profession, hardened in cruelty….

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • This Gordon is a veteran slave-trader, a man-stealer and man-slayer by profession, hardened in cruelty….

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • This Gordon is a veteran slave-trader, a man-stealer and man-slayer by profession, hardened in cruelty….

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • This Gordon is a veteran slave-trader, a man-stealer and man-slayer by profession, hardened in cruelty….

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • They were right, and from the Bight of Benin to the Coast of Cuba the man-stealer will tremble.51

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • They were right, and from the Bight of Benin to the Coast of Cuba the man-stealer will tremble.51

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

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