The aspect of Willems as a wife-beater presented to him no interest.
The man was a wife-beater when drunk, which he was whenever he had “the price.”
Not the wife-beater, for afterward he might beg her forgiveness and kiss her.
How do we know but what that wife-beater loved his wife dearly before marriage, and she did not care for him?
For example, the selfishness of a wife-beater is lower than the selfishness of a man who gives up his life for another.
They comfortably jail and feed a wife-beater, and leave his innocent wife and children to starve.
Delaware occupies toward freethinkers precisely the same position that a wife-beater does toward the wife.
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.
Plenty of scoundrels have been sent to the galleys for less than that, but the courts won't concern themselves with a wife-beater.
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