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Meanings of wifely in английском
Synonyms
Examples for "wifelike"
Examples for "wifelike"
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.
Usage of wifely in английском
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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Wifely through the time
Wifely across language varieties
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