divorce mill


nounInformal.
  1. a divorce court, especially such a court in a state or country that does not impose difficult requirements, as a long period of residence or humiliating grounds, on those who wish to dissolve their marriage.

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How to use divorce mill in a sentence

  • It has been represented as having an easy divorce mill that constantly grinds out divorces of a more or less bogus nature.

    The Arena | Various
  • They will talk of divorces as "matrimonial smash-ups," or enumerate them under the caption "divorce mill."

    The Land of Contrasts | James Fullarton Muirhead
  • A woman that's been through the divorce mill twice has got to be humble.

    Otherwise Phyllis | Meredith Nicholson