spinster
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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
Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who is raising Estella as she conspires to meddle in Pip’s life, famously wears a wedding dress she hasn’t taken off since being left at the altar years before.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
An aunt—that seemed possible; a visiting spinster aunt, slightly odd, but nice.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
As her New York Times obituary put it, “She specialized in sourness, or, more politely, acerbity, which she used to her comic advantage in roles as housekeepers, spinsters, wicked stepmothers, nuns and back-talking secretaries.”
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2019
Mrs Morgan ran it with her daughters, who were elderly spinsters.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2016
Considered spinsters back East, both Curtis and Stanley married younger men out West.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2015
It felt like two spinsters sitting at home watching time and the world go by us.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2011
For the greater number of her twenty-nine years, Bibi Haldar suffered from an ailment that baffled family, friends, priests, palmists, spinsters, gem therapists, prophets, and fools.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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