Plenty of scoundrels have been sent to the galleys for less than that, but the courts won't concern themselves with a wife-beater.
The aspect of Willems as a wife-beater presented to him no interest.
They comfortably jail and feed a wife-beater, and leave his innocent wife and children to starve.
Not the wife-beater, for afterward he might beg her forgiveness and kiss her.
The man was a wife-beater when drunk, which he was whenever he had “the price.”
Delaware occupies toward freethinkers precisely the same position that a wife-beater does toward the wife.
How do we know but what that wife-beater loved his wife dearly before marriage, and she did not care for him?
She stole curious and forlorn glances at the dejected Bob, who bore the guilty look of at least a wife-beater or a family tyrant.
For example, the selfishness of a wife-beater is lower than the selfishness of a man who gives up his life for another.
a man's tank top or sleeveless undershirt
fr the stereotype that the shirts are worn predominantly by men who beat their wives
derogatory slang
noun
A sleeveless undershirt worn by men •Fr regarding this as the attire of a male who would do this
