wifelike
Americanadjective
adverb
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Then he became ill and she began taking over his finances — a bit too wifelike for him.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2010
Perhaps she had been too wifelike in her manner, and therefore he had feared.
From He Fell in Love with His Wife by Edward Payson Roe
I am delicate about the figures, for Mrs O'D. occasionally reads these sketches, and might feel a wifelike antipathy to a record of this nature.
From Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Charles James Lever
I have a little pride; Enough to stand up, wifelike, by his side, With the same smile as when I was his bride.
From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Bliss Carman
Sir Lucius and Lady Aphrodite Grafton were indeed on the best possible terms, and the whole county admired his conjugal attentions and her wifelike affections.
From The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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