spinster
noun
a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
spinsterish
-
a word derived from
spinster.
Example Sentences
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The character of Marian, the spinsterish librarian in 1962's "The Music Man," another smash hit for Jones, "wasn't me," she said firmly.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2013
Ms. Hecht and Ms. Gyllenhaal are superb in conveying the very different kinds of neediness and hunger embodied by the spinsterish Olga and the unhappily married Masha.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2011
Maureen Dowd, having just skewered the White House for painting Kagan as a Girls Gone Wild party girl, is certain that Kagan's single-ness has been spun by the White House as pathetic spinsterish loneliness.
From Slate ● May 19, 2010
Against such competition, Finland's Communist Party, counting 16% of the national vote but virtually leaderless except for a spinsterish, twice-divorced Nordic Ana Pauker named Hertta Kuusinen,* has only barely held its own.
From Time Magazine Archive
By far the major portion of the book was devoted to spinsterish discourses on prison life—bad food, hijinks in the exercise yard, tedious little jailbird hobbies.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
