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Meanings of wifelike in English
Synonyms
Examples for "wifely"
Examples for "wifely"
1
She made up for this wifely self-abnegation by frequenting the hen houses.
2
Was that how it went, then, that wifely attachment grew from motherly?
3
But all their wives remembered, and turned them out with wifely elbow.
4
Judge Emery laughed noiselessly, and quite without resentment at this wifely characterization.
5
American women, he said, had no conception of wifely duties and affection.
1
Motherly affection, sisterly devotion, uxorial duty, filial piety.
2
Riccabocca, the wiliest and most relentless of men in his maxims, melted into absolute uxorial imbecility at the sight of that mute distress.
Usage of wifelike in English
1
Perhaps she had been too wifelike in her manner, and therefore he had feared.
2
He shrugs his shoulders, and at that small gesture, wifelike, I am on to him.
3
Wifelike, she desired to worship him, and that he should know that she worshipped him.