unwifely

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

"He reproached his wife with unwifely disobedience, and with the crime of turning her own offspring against his father, and the two but mocked him!"
"Yet every day the theme of this old troubadour's talk around the hotels is female entanglements--mendacious, unwifely, and for him unavailing."

From un- + wifely.

more unwifely (comparative) most unwifely (superlative)

unwifeliness

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