Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Destitute of a husband.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destitute of a husband.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without a
husband .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Dear Mrs. Cain Don't pay attention to these pathetic husbandless women who are jealous of women like you in happy long-term marriages.
Herman <![CDATA[&]]> Gloria Cain's Problems Go Way Back: Report
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So both Janine and I would be husbandless another night.
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What a painful few years it had been watching her beautiful daughter, a daughter she had once been so proud of, approach her midthirties husbandless.
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She's jobless, husbandless, and only slightly less sullen and defensive than her teenage son and daughter when they're forced to return to her parents 'home so they all can have a roof over their heads.
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What a painful few years it had been watching her beautiful daughter, a daughter she had once been so proud of, approach her midthirties husbandless.
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What a painful few years it had been watching her beautiful daughter, a daughter she had once been so proud of, approach her midthirties husbandless.
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She's jobless, husbandless, and only slightly less sullen and defensive than her teenage son and daughter when they're forced to return to her parents 'home so they all can have a roof over their heads.
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Despite most of us being husbandless and childless with still fledging careers, it seems that single moms and working women are not the only ones guilty of skimping on sleep.
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She's jobless, husbandless, and only slightly less sullen and defensive than her teenage son and daughter when they're forced to return to her parents 'home so they all can have a roof over their heads.
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Over the next two decades, she housed and employed numerous husbandless sisters, daughters and granddaughters.
Marla Miller's 'Besty Ross and the Making of America,' review by Marjoleine Kars
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