connubial
Example Sentences
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Who would know better than Eliot that connubial happiness in the capital can sometimes cost a woman her reputation back in the Midlands?
From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2018
My father, it appears, was not naturally connubial, and even in the early years of marriage contrived to be more absent than present.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2017
She has taken on her husband’s signature pout, in a connubial version of people who grow to look like their dogs.
From The New Yorker ● May 9, 2016
“Marry Him” is more measured than its explosive title suggests; and the Times piece at least allows that culture might play a role in how equality influences the connubial bed.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2014
The gentleman promised it to the extent of his poor powers, intimating, however, that connubial fidelity might conflict with maternal ambition, a result which he deprecated as deplorable.
From Mr. Claghorn's Daughter by Hilary Trent
Vocabulary lists containing connubial
Great Expectations
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The Time Machine
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