spinster

But she brushed off the barbs, saying: "I am toothy, dumpy, ugly, overweight, a spinster – what the hell."

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

This image may have been reinforced by a book Augustus wrote about her after her death that painted her as "this crazy spinster lady who lived in Paris".

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026

“I’m a geriatric pregnant spinster who puts crystals in her bra,” Helen says in an unusual moment of self-awareness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025

"Look at me," she declares to her spinster daughters in one scene.

From Salon ● May 6, 2023

But trying to imagine Katherine pledging herself to a life as a spinster doesn't quite fit.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

For the Lowells, it turns out, are a fascinating bunch: spinsters, ministers, lawyers, entrepreneurs, factory builders, poets, college presidents and soldiers.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2017

Between 1934 and 1939, two "nervous British spinsters" were regular visitors to the opera houses of Germany and Austria.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2017

Considered spinsters back East, both Curtis and Stanley married younger men out West.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2015

It’s a message that doesn’t exactly allay the anxieties the book claims to be militating against—namely that we spinsters aren’t choosing our fates, we’re just losers in the marriage market.

From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2015

And yet she could see her two daughters, two spinsters beyond the marriageable age; they were at least twenty-five.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan