pearl-clutching
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.13 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "When John Kerry “outed” Mary Cheney in a 2004 presidential debate, it was already well known that Mary Cheney was a lesbian. You can't out the already out, no matter what pearl-clutching pundits would have you believe."
- "Even the biggest doe-eyed, pearl-clutching Etsy muffin has to find some way to make it okay to be negative, because we have no choice."
- "There's something truly irresistible about the pearl-clutching cartoons that came out during the time people thought women on bicycles were single-handedly going to bring society to ruin."
- "Poverty, housing instability, hunger, mental health struggles and addiction can all contribute to more vulnerable pupils missing out on education, so spare us the annual pearl-clutching about taking the kids out of school to go on a sun holiday"
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Usage
Inflected Forms
more pearl-clutching (comparative)
most pearl-clutching (superlative)
pearl-clutchings (plural)