Addams

[ ad-uh mz ]

/ ˈæd əmz /

noun

Charles (Samuel),1912–88, U.S. cartoonist.

Jane,1860–1935, U.S. social worker and writer: Nobel Peace Prize 1931.

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Examples from the Web for addams

You also had a pretty uncomfortable costume in The Addams Family, which is surprising, since your performance feels so effortless.
All Eyes on Anjelica Huston: The Legendary Actress on Love, Abuse, and Jack Nicholson|Alex Suskind|November 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This “Popular Song” music video is The Addams Family meets… Wicked.
Empire of the Sun & More of the Best Music Videos of the Week (VIDEO)|Jean Trinh|May 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
When you had the bit part as a police desk sergeant in the film Addams Family Values, was it your dream one day to play Gomez?
Nathan Lane's Final Musical?|Kevin Sessums|April 8, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Anyway, that's all I remember from my one day of shooting Addams Family Values.
Nathan Lane's Final Musical?|Kevin Sessums|April 8, 2010|DAILY BEAST

I guess he and others were expecting the Sondheim/Tony Kushner Addams Family musical as directed by Peter Brook.
Nathan Lane's Final Musical?|Kevin Sessums|April 8, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Yet Miss Addams is a reformer, and sympathy without an explicit philosophy may lead to a distorted enthusiasm.
A Preface to Politics|Walter Lippmann
Miss Addams is still puzzled and grieved by the response her words about drugged soldiers called out.
Our Part in the Great War|Arthur Gleason
The more Miss Addams found out about what goes on in big cities, the harder she worked.
The Child's Book of American Biography|Mary Stoyell Stimpson
Miss Addams tells of a young man from the south of Italy who was mourning the death of his little girl of twelve.
The Old World in the New|Edward Alsworth Ross
It is the fact that Miss Addams has not been able to imbue the movement in which she is a leader with her own spirit.
Women as World Builders|Floyd Dell

British Dictionary definitions for addams

Addams

/ (ˈædəmz) /

noun

Jane. 1860–1935, US social reformer, feminist, and pacifist, who founded Hull House, a social settlement in Chicago: Nobel peace prize 1931

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