Sentence example with the word 'henpecked'

henpecked

abused, browbeaten, downtrod, downtrodden, ground down, in leading strings, misused, on a leash, on a string, oppressed, ordered around, overborne, regimented, servile, slavish, submissive, trampled, tyrannized, unmanned

Definition adj. harassed by persistent nagging

Last update: January 23, 2016


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The poor guy's probably some henpecked bank teller who rented this place trying to shack up with a honey and struck out.   [adjective]

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STEPHEN: We have shrewridden Shakespeare and henpecked Socrates.   [adjective]

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"Why are ninety-nine men out of a hundred henpecked."   [adjective]

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Her treatment of his proffered consolations made him feel slightly henpecked.   [adjective]

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I had heard of henpecked husbands and now I felt that I saw one.   [adjective]

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"That ever I should live to see you a henpecked husband and enjoying it."   [Please select]

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Jacobus would reconsider the spiteful decision to which her henpecked husband agreed with evident reluctance.   [Please select]

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He is said to be a very much henpecked husband.   [Please select]

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Sir Jeoffry, who had bullied his wife, had now the pleasurable experience of being henpecked by his daughter; for so, indeed, he was.   [Please select]

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I have observed that he was a simple, good-natured man; he was, moreover, a kind neighbor and an obedient, henpecked husband.   [Please select]

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