spinster
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But she brushed off the barbs, saying: "I am toothy, dumpy, ugly, overweight, a spinster – what the hell."
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Regarded in her time as "a reclusive spinster that never left her house", she was determined to be free to pursue a life of artistic expression.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
“I’m a geriatric pregnant spinster who puts crystals in her bra,” Helen says in an unusual moment of self-awareness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
They're living in a rural village together, two spinster women.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2023
A letter came addressed to Matt from a spinster aunt of Shadrach’s who lived in Washington, a woman of whom Shad had often spoken.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
Considered spinsters back East, both Curtis and Stanley married younger men out West.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2015
It’s a message that doesn’t exactly allay the anxieties the book claims to be militating against—namely that we spinsters aren’t choosing our fates, we’re just losers in the marriage market.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2015
Those financial rights could be enjoyed, however, by widows and spinsters.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2014
Southern belles, frustrated spinsters, power-hungry TV execs, nuns, clergymen and even kings and queens.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2012
For the greater number of her twenty-nine years, Bibi Haldar suffered from an ailment that baffled family, friends, priests, palmists, spinsters, gem therapists, prophets, and fools.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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