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Bluebeard, Lop-Ear was hen-pecked; and I imagine that
CHAPTER XV 2010
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CHICAGO mdash; President Barack Obama is hen-pecked.
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In Gladiator, the protagonist, Hugo Danner, is born in a small town in the Midwest — Indian Creek, Colorado — but his parents are a hen-pecked local college biology professor and an obsessively religious shrew of a woman — more backward and small-minded than salt of the earth.
Gladiator « Isegoria 2008
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All the world was watching as Kate kind of picked on him and he was the hen-pecked husband.
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Romero was something of a hypochondriac, and often seemed hen-pecked.
Radio: Dragnet Zen Tiger 2010
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In Patterson's account, Clinton emerges as a careless, disingenuous frat boy, mercilessly hen-pecked by the domineering Hillary, whose tirades leave him looking like a "beaten puppy."
ABC Consultant Richard Clarke Blasts First Installment Of Film, Hints At ABC "Conspiracy" 2009
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Obama would be the first obviously hen-pecked man ...
Michelle Obama: My Husband Is Only Candidate Who Can Change How World Views America 2009
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Nothing worst the being hen-pecked over minor details to drive a chairman up the wall.
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Now bona-fide ghosts, the couple have one final errand to do before going to their eternal rest: help their stifled, hen-pecked banker Cosmo Topper (Roland Young) get more out of life -- while he's still living!
John Farr: On His Birthday, The Best Cary Grant Movies By Farr 2009
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Now bona-fide ghosts, it seems the couple have one final errand to do before going to their eternal rest: help their stifled, hen-pecked banker Cosmo Topper (Roland Young) get more out of life-while he's still living!
oroboros commented on the word hen-pecked
synonym: uxorious
December 29, 2006