wifely 的定义
wife·li·er, wife·li·est.
- of, like, or befitting a wife.
更多wifely例句
- He seems to have, at least if nothing else, a woman who flirts with him with a wifely confidence.
- They seem less afraid of her hard power than they were of her soft, behind-the-scenes, wifely power.
- Moreover, wifely adoration was particularly bad for clergymen, who were far too much inclined already to give themselves airs.
- Mrs. Joe ran for his overcoat and best hat, gave him a wifely kiss, and watched him depart from the low brown door-way.
- Then, with true wifely instinct she sought to cheer him up with pleasing prattle of a new bonnet he had promised her.
- Mme. Fauvel's resistance grew weaker and more faint, as her niece pointed out the line for her to pursue: the path of wifely duty.
- Yet the lady of the Van Pool, whatever her practice, had in theory some relics of old-fashioned wifely duty.