Befitting or characteristic of a wife.
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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 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.
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.
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