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Significados de wifely en inglés

Befitting or characteristic of a wife.

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Examples for "wifelike"
Examples for "wifelike"
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Perhaps she had been too wifelike in her manner, and therefore he had feared.
He Fell in Love with His Wife
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He shrugs his shoulders, and at that small gesture, wifelike, I am on to him.
The White Queen
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Wifelike, she desired to worship him, and that he should know that she worshipped him.
The Last Chronicle of Barset
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Motherly affection, sisterly devotion, uxorial duty, filial piety.
Seven Surrenders
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Riccabocca, the wiliest and most relentless of men in his maxims, melted into absolute uxorial imbecility at the sight of that mute distress.
"My Novel" — Volume 08
Uso de wifely en inglés
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She made up for this wifely self-abnegation by frequenting the hen houses.
Adopting an Abandoned Farm
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Was that how it went, then, that wifely attachment grew from motherly?
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
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But all their wives remembered, and turned them out with wifely elbow.
The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story
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Judge Emery laughed noiselessly, and quite without resentment at this wifely characterization.
The Squirrel-Cage
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American women, he said, had no conception of wifely duties and affection.
The Shuttle
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A wifely tenderness in her eyes that I wanted to feel, too.
The Girls
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She'll go simply as a matter of wifely duty, and all that.
The Gray Dawn
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When did two men ever disagree upon the subject of wifely duties?
For the Term of His Natural Life
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What right had Laura Fairford to preach to her of wifely obligations?
The Custom of the Country
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Was not her whole life a pretence, an affectation of wifely virtues?
Demos
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And this was what her notions of wifely duty had led to!
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12...
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I completely fail in my wifely duty to advise him, I see nothing.
The Lady of the Rivers
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She was looking back at me with a flawless imitation of wifely concern.
Magic terror: seven tales
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It's a wifely gesture; it is, in his estimation, entirely calculated.
The pretender's crown
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She hadn't gone there on some kind of wifely fact-finding mission, after all.
Mom over miami
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Why on earth would I have thought of my wifely motto?
The White Princess
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