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
The expenses of a sick-bed are often talked of, but it is only the imaginary valetudinarian who thinks of carrying economy into that department; the real patient has other things to think of.
From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
