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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
man-like

also manlike, mid-15c., from man (n.) + like (adj.).

Usage examples of "man-like".

From within came the scent of gorillas and a strange man-like scent that intrigued and troubled him, but he neither heard nor saw signs of life beyond the doorway.

Beyond him was a sea of creatures like the few who'd climbed the walls, man-like but not men.

It is nearly 1 m (3 ft 3 in) high, has hands and feet like Wang Congmei's creature, and certainly has the strange flat finger and toe-nails which give such an uncanny man-like appearance to the severed hands and feet from Zhuanxian.

No man has seen that camel since that night, but a black brutish man-like shape shambles to Natohk’s tent and gibbers to him in the blackness before dawn.