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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

The day boats maintained an air of spinsterish respectability.

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