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
Up to now Mr. Law has supported his valetudinarian existence with calm resignation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other countries should be put on notice that Britain is nobody's poor relation and nobody's valetudinarian cousin.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was true masculine vigour underlying Cowper's jeremiads; but it was natural that many people should only see in him an amiable valetudinarian, not qualified for a censorship of statesmen and226 men of the world.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
