Adjective : a henpecked husband who never dared to contradict his wife. From Dictionary.com.
The idea that a play should send anyone reaching for the word "henpecked" is disheartening. From Wordnik.com. [Men Should Weep; Blasted; When We Are Married] Reference
Singaporean men are also sometimes branded with the "henpecked" label, she said, something they have learned to shrug off. From Wordnik.com. [China: ‘Men Should Listen to Their Wives’ | Impact Lab] Reference
This does not prevent him from being "henpecked" in many cases, but on the whole it assures his superior status. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Housewife] Reference
I am a shining example of a much henpecked husband. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers] Reference
Take it he was henpecked when he married, and Madam. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
Two in five Japanese husbands henpecked into submission. From Wordnik.com. [Does your wife do this too?] Reference
Our grandfather had been the classic henpecked husband. From Wordnik.com. [Three Family Secrets We Can't Keep] Reference
“Why are ninety-nine men out of a hundred henpecked?”. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven] Reference
He's henpecked, but with good manners; it's their system. From Wordnik.com. [The Possessed] Reference
LINKLETTER: You'll never be a henpecked husband, would you?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Art Linkletter Discusses His Career in Television - June 30, 2000] Reference
He mentioned that Obama was henpecked by his wife, Michelle. From Wordnik.com. [Limbaugh comes out for Obama] Reference
Wilbur Pauley mugged and cavorted as the henpecked Astradamors. From Wordnik.com. [Le Grand Macabre: Death, be not proud] Reference
STEPHEN: We have shrewridden Shakespeare and henpecked Socrates. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
His most famous role is Dan Conner, the henpecked husband on “Roseanne.”. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday Reading] Reference
Rona says the busy father is henpecked, hapless, and in a good bit of trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Booksellers' Picks: 15 Soaring Summer Reads] Reference
The poor Colonel! after his wife, he had been henpecked by his little daughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
The henpecked autocrat Grant bristles at having his marital fidelity questioned. From Wordnik.com. [Matt's TV Week in Review] Reference
But don't get the idea he was trapped or henpecked or bitter about his marriage. From Wordnik.com. [The O'Reilly Factor]
Two in five Japanese husbands henpecked into submission | 世論 What Japan Thinks. From Wordnik.com. [Does your wife do this too?] Reference
Now they claim she's a-well, it rhymes with "rich" - who has "henpecked" her husband. From Wordnik.com. [Japan: Getting Racy With The Royals] Reference
In this audacious novel, the polygamous Mormon patriarch is just a poor, henpecked schmo. From Wordnik.com. [Fiction & Poetry] Reference
She believes that in Western countries doing chores has never been equal to being henpecked. From Wordnik.com. [China: ‘Men Should Listen to Their Wives’ | Impact Lab] Reference
The suffragette and a little henpecked fellow crawling along beside her; that is her husband. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions.] Reference
The idea of one of his choristers being in the henpecked line was very amusing to the bishop. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Thorne] Reference
Her nephew Eugene, she said, was doomed to be henpecked for the rest of his days that she saw clearly. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
And Annie Delittle, his daintree diva, in deltic dwilights, singing him henpecked rusish through the bars?. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
Stara started to wave him to silence, but it appeared that on this subject, at least, he would not be henpecked. From Wordnik.com. [The Robin And The Kestrel]
Right up there on the pedestal, where my devoted, worshipping (and not at all henpecked) husband insists I remain. From Wordnik.com. [The Stereotyped World of WIN. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
If it were not for her large benevolence and suavity, which makes her a very agreeable woman, he would be badly henpecked. From Wordnik.com. [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference
And he clambered down from his perch, and resolved into a little red – faced man, rather beery and henpecked – looking. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
Several vignettes then explore how a sudden flush of money affects everyone from a henpecked store clerk to a criminal on the lam. From Wordnik.com. [Weekly Mishmash: January 3-9 : Scrubbles.net] Reference
A notably bright light here has been Joe Lo Truglio as Ron's henpecked friend who is addicted to burglarizing houses for bobbleheads. From Wordnik.com. [Only If You Make Me] Reference
Politicians seem to think it humanizes them — and increases their appeal to women voters — to come off as just a little henpecked. From Wordnik.com. [Not-So-Hidden Power] Reference
The new people were a hard-faced woman who acted as cook, and her henpecked husband who managed the drink, and their three grown children. From Wordnik.com. [Take A Thief]
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