wifeless

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A renowned theater director who has embarked on a kind of permanent vacation in his 60s, he continues: “I am wifeless, childless, brotherless, sisterless, I am my well-known self, made glittering and brittle by fame.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

In the end, Don’s left jobless and wifeless and it’s going to be fascinating to see how Matt Weiner rebuilds him.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2013

Childless, wifeless Lou is a bundle of anger and avarice, and writers Josh Heald, Sean Anders and John Morris load him up with harshly hilarious lines.

From Time • Mar. 25, 2010

As for the wifeless multimillionaire, he gallantly espoused a responsibility for finest U. S. music by accepting the Presidency of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society.

From Time Magazine Archive

And now they lived together, the wifeless man and the girl, and every day there was freshly caught seal meat to be cut up.

From Eskimo Folk-Tales by Worster, W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander)