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

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

Physically he was far from strong, and almost the first comment made by Canadians on him was that their new governor-general came to them a valetudinarian.

From British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by Morison, J. L. (John Lyle)