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henpecked

/hen-pekt/US // ˈhɛnˌpɛkt //UK // (ˈhɛnˌpɛkd) //

啄木鸟,惧怕,惧内,斗鸡眼

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : browbeaten, bullied, or intimidated by one's wife, girlfriend, etc.: a henpecked husband who never dared to contradict his wife.

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Examples

  • One danger is that women will be henpecked by men who now claim that unprotected sex is medically safe.

  • Martha paid as little attention to the old man's injunctions as a predominant dame gives to those of a henpecked husband.

  • He still believed that she was excessively fond of him—a common delusion of husbands, especially when henpecked.

  • Socrates was henpecked, and was one of the greatest philosophers in the world—but the rule does not hold good any longer.

  • I saw one instance where a henpecked husband "ran amok" and killed or wounded seventeen people before he himself was killed.

  • I am prepared to become an awful example of a henpecked husband.