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  • adjective Not wifely.

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un- +‎ wifely

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Examples

  • Were Barbara "unwifely," I could not blame her, but neither could I have at hand my proof of dear miracles.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • She'd always doted on me, although I had a suspicion that she sampled the marriage mutton elsewhere when my back was turned-I couldn't be sure, though, and anyway, an occasional unwifely romp was no great matter, while she'd been dependent on Papa.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • And the thoughts that darted through her brain in answer were dark and unwifely.

    Two Tales of Old Strasbourg 2003

  • She'd always doted on me, although I had a suspicion that she sampled the marriage mutton elsewhere when my back was turned-I couldn't be sure, though, and anyway, an occasional unwifely romp was no great matter, while she'd been dependent on Papa.

    Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • She'd always doted on me, although I had a suspicion that she sampled the marriage mutton elsewhere when my back was turned-I couldn't be sure, though, and anyway, an occasional unwifely romp was no great matter, while she'd been dependent on Papa.

    Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • Afterward she lay long awake, wondering in her ignorant girl's heart if such an unwifely tirade were sufficient cause for divorce, wondering if he would ever love her again after reading it.

    Martie, the Unconquered Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • For instance, she accepted her present situation with a sang-froid equaling that of a camp harpy, a few of whom Pierce had seen; then, too, she was, or had been, married to a no-account foreigner to whom she referred with a calloused and most unwifely flippancy; moreover, she bore herself with a freedom, a boldness, quite irreconcilable to the modesty of so - called "good women."

    The Winds of Chance Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • Upon my suggesting that this wound might have been inflicted by the iron in its fall, she did use me in so unwifely a manner that I sought my bed in much wrath and vexation of spirit.

    A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales Am��lie Rives 1904

  • She was contrite for her unwifely lack of abnegation.

    The Seeker Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • Yet every day the theme of this old troubadour's talk around the hotels is female entanglements -- mendacious, unwifely, and for him unavailing.

    Aftermath James Lane Allen 1887

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