单词 | wifely |
释义 | wifely (once / 11588 pages) adj WORD FAMILY wife: ex-wife, wifelike, wifely, wives USAGE EXAMPLESOr was this a wifely game that she did not know about, a daily ritual, like soaking rice or making dough? Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007) In midcentury U.S. of A., where women's paths consisted principally of chaste courtship and wifely duty, Brown shifted the conversation. Los Angeles Times(May 17, 2016) She was too wifely, too fashion conscious, too conservative, too much a 1950s’ traditionalist in the edgier, post-sixties, 1980s. Time(Mar 07, 2016) adj befitting or characteristic of a wife Syn|Ant uxorial, wifelike husbandly befitting or characteristic of a husband |
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