connubial
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Who would know better than Eliot that connubial happiness in the capital can sometimes cost a woman her reputation back in the Midlands?
From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2018
She has taken on her husband’s signature pout, in a connubial version of people who grow to look like their dogs.
From The New Yorker ● May 9, 2016
“Marry Him” is more measured than its explosive title suggests; and the Times piece at least allows that culture might play a role in how equality influences the connubial bed.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2014
He’s talking about engagement and beyond, but he might as well be describing the act of watching this grating round robin of connubial dysfunction and romantic disappointment.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2012
This proposition for an enlargement of the connubial noose gave rise to several very knotty points, and to much opposition on the part of the patricians.
From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?
Vocabulary lists containing connubial
Great Expectations
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The Time Machine
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