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long-suffering
adjective as in patient
Weak matches
Example Sentences
She played the long-suffering younger sister to Zendaya’s Rue Bennett in the angsty teen drama that chronicles Rue’s struggles with sobriety, along with cheating, sex scandals and other explicit storylines ensnaring those in her high school friend group.
Davis won an Oscar in 2017 for playing the long-suffering wife opposite Denzel Washington in the film adaptation of August Wilson’s “Fences.”
When she played Dustin Hoffman’s long-suffering girlfriend in the 1982 hit film “Tootsie,” New Yorker critic Pauline Kael called Garr “the funniest neurotic dizzy dame on the screen.”
Botswana’s governing party - in power for almost six decades - is trying to pull off a trick in Wednesday’s general election by using a phrase normally associated with long-suffering opposition groups.
The team’s long-suffering fans certainly showed up Wednesday, with a standing-room-only crowd of 17,245 packing Honda Center for the home opener.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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