marriageable
adjective
suitable or attractive for marriage.
unmarriageable
-
a word derived from
marriageable.
Example Sentences
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Penelope is a shrinking violet, but she’s also a romantic tired of being underestimated and cast as unmarriageable.
From Salon ● May 17, 2024
Old-timers remember an unsanitary backwater notorious for its unmarriageable men, a startling contrast with the modern consumerist bustle captured by Jia’s camera.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2020
She can’t have justice without becoming unmarriageable, and perhaps rendering her siblings unmarriageable as well.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2018
A: It's a good thing that everyone with crazy parents is not considered unmarriageable or else the rate of marriage in this country would plummet.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2011
Her father had then done what Greek fathers of unmarriageable girls did in those days: he wrote to America.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
