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Definition of wife-starver in English: wife-starvernoun Australian informal A man who defaults on maintenance payments to a wife or ex-wife. I wrote to him from the jail where Bertha had put me as a wife-starver Example sentencesExamples - I should like to refer the enforcement of the maintenance order which arises out of one of the most heart-breaking cases in which solicitors or junior counsel appear, involving what is vulgarly called the wife-starver.
- What do you take me for, a wife-starver?
- He's only been inside twice, once as a wife starver.
- I went there a wife-starver and drunkard, but I left it a new man in Christ Jesus!
- A high A.L.P. official had declared that I was a wife deserter and wife-starver.
- Would a woman put you in jail eleven times as a wife-starver then write a book about you?
- Eventually the police grabbed him because he was a wife starver, which was a criminal offence.
- It is sometimes said in the north that any man who goes to work in the Territory is a tax dodger, a wife starver, or a man who is anxious to avoid becoming a guest of His Majesty.
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