valetudinarian
Example Sentences
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“There’s a class-based idea that anything too valetudinarian, too conspicuously hygienic, is middle-class,” he said, using a long word for being unduly anxious about one’s health.
From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2020
Paranoid about his health, this classic valetudinarian is really scared of dying alone and unloved.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2016
With the air of an unwilling valetudinarian, Michigan's handsome, boot-jawed Governor Kim Sigler got up to speak before the Economics Club of Detroit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Up to now Mr. Law has supported his valetudinarian existence with calm resignation.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the air of this country, with its alternations of moisture and dry frost, although excellent for a healthy person, is very trying to a valetudinarian.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
