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- noun Plural form of
stepmother .
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Examples
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I and many other children were raised on fairy tales where wicked stepmothers dance to death in red hot shoes, where handsome princes have their eyes gouged out, and where old crones are cooked alive in ovens.
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Bourne, whose company website describes her as a breeder of "award winning perfumed Pinks and Dianthus", seemingly exemplifyies the worst stereotypes of mother-in-laws and stepmothers by berating Withers for staying in bed too late, drawing attention to herself and wanting to get married in a castle.
Mother-in-law's withering email to bride-to-be goes viral 2011
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Mother-in-laws get a bum rap, rather like wicked stepmothers.
Lisa del Rosso: My Mother-In-Law and Me Lisa del Rosso 2011
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Or need to remind us not to have sex with our stepmothers, nephews or pets?
Cathleen Falsani: Living Leviticus: Who Could Do It? Who Would Want To? Cathleen Falsani 2011
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Mother-in-laws get a bum rap, rather like wicked stepmothers.
Lisa del Rosso: My Mother-In-Law and Me Lisa del Rosso 2011
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Scholars have attacked it for promoting female passivity, for giving stepmothers a bad name, and for equating beauty with virtue: The pretty Cinderella is good and her ugly stepsisters are bad.
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Their children seem to establish closer relationships with their non-biological or second mother than stepchildren do with stepmothers in straight marriages.
Elizabeth Abbott: Gay Marriage, Gay Parents: What About the Children? Elizabeth Abbott 2011
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It's all about baddies getting their come-uppance and wicked stepmothers being rolled down the hill.
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Scholars have attacked it for promoting female passivity, for giving stepmothers a bad name, and for equating beauty with virtue: The pretty Cinderella is good and her ugly stepsisters are bad.
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Or need to remind us not to have sex with our stepmothers, nephews or pets?
Cathleen Falsani: Living Leviticus: Who Could Do It? Who Would Want To? Cathleen Falsani 2011
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