Befitting or characteristic of a wife.
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.
6 A wifely tenderness in her eyes that I wanted to feel, too.
7 She'll go simply as a matter of wifely duty, and all that.
8 When did two men ever disagree upon the subject of wifely duties?
9 What right had Laura Fairford to preach to her of wifely obligations?
10 Was not her whole life a pretence, an affectation of wifely virtues?
11 And this was what her notions of wifely duty had led to!
12 I completely fail in my wifely duty to advise him, I see nothing.
13 She was looking back at me with a flawless imitation of wifely concern.
14 It's a wifely gesture; it is, in his estimation, entirely calculated.
15 She hadn't gone there on some kind of wifely fact-finding mission, after all.
16 Why on earth would I have thought of my wifely motto?
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