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
Other countries should be put on notice that Britain is nobody's poor relation and nobody's valetudinarian cousin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Up to now Mr. Law has supported his valetudinarian existence with calm resignation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why should he lie here and grow rusty? why should he, in his best years, voluntarily withdraw himself from life and play the valetudinarian before his time?
From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II by Heyse, Paul
