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hen-peck

VERB
  1. bother persistently with trivial complaints
    She nags her husband all day long

How To Use hen-peck In A Sentence

  • This, of course, does not stop her noseying around, interfering and gossiping to her heart's content, especially to her completely hen-pecked hubby Norman.
  • The angels minister to the tyrants; or the gentle, hen-pecked husband cowers before the superior partlet. The Kickleburys on the Rhine
  • I might be extraordinarily hen-pecked for someone in just his fifth year of marriage, but there are limits. Times, Sunday Times
  • She became the sharp-tongued wife, he the hen-pecked husband.
  • His father was a patient, long-suffering character who was mercilessly hen-pecked.
  • This, of course, does not stop her noseying around, interfering and gossiping to her heart's content, especially to her completely hen-pecked hubby Norman.
  • His gallery of types included the domineering battleaxe, the hen-pecked husband, and the pretty, flirtatious girl.
  • In the front line of her social assaults was her husband Richard, a meek, hen-pecked individual who yearned for a quiet life but instead found himself steamrollered into falling in with his wife's plans.
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