wife-beater

noun

1. a man who hits his wife

Other Word Forms

• wife-beating noun

Example Sentences

Depp had previously sued a British tabloid for calling him a "wife-beater," and he lost, even though British law favors plaintiffs in defamation cases to an outrageous degree.

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But the message was sent: There is nothing Trump loves more than a man who is alleged to be a sexual predator and/or a wife-beater.

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Two years previously, Depp lost a similar case in the UK against the Sun newspaper, after the High Court said the content of an article which called him a "wife-beater" was "substantially true".

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There is wife-beater Miles Davis as well as the artist Carl Andre, who was acquitted of murder in the death of his wife, fellow artist Ana Mendieta, who fell out of a 34th-floor window.

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The presenter faced a backlash after stepping in when Johnson was described as a "wife-beater" on last week's Question Time.

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