It is Squidward, actually, tending his soufflés at home, who might be said to exhibit a certain spinsterish or curate-like gayness; SpongeBob and Patrick simply love each other very much. From Wordnik.com. [SpongeBob's Golden Dream] Reference
A spinsterish woman looked like she might be contemplating suicide. From Wordnik.com. [Black Friday]
Even her daughter, Gnaea, just grew plainer and more spinsterish as the years passed. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Mew's poems are few, somber, and spinsterish, but in their sad, shriveled way supremely beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Gender Bending, Part 2] Reference
'I can't presume to speak,' said Miss Marple with a little spinsterish cough, 'never having married. From Wordnik.com. [A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side]
For all her make-up and her somewhat outspoken costume, she struck him as spinsterish — even epicene. From Wordnik.com. [Unnatural Death]
Dr. Calvin, a plain, spinsterish woman in her late 30s, has a yen for a handsome young co-worker named Milton Ashe. From Wordnik.com. [Is the world ready for Susan Calvin, Girl Genius?] Reference
The Widow's Children (1976) relates the efforts of a spinsterish daughter to shake loose from her oppressive family. From Wordnik.com. [A Not-So-Simple Heart] Reference
Dianne Wiest shines as ever as the spinsterish aunt who dates a succession of losers but can't seem to find a good guy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
One such is Faraday's lengthy account of a district hospital dance to which he invites Caroline, already spinsterish in her 20s. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters] Reference
Florence is a classically trained violinist and devotes the remainder of her life to a rather spinsterish role in a string quartet. From Wordnik.com. [Think of England] Reference
Mary had given her friends a free hand in the furnishing of this room, which consequently bore the marks of middle-aged, spinsterish thrift. From Wordnik.com. [The Mistaken Wife] Reference
She sat in that rather stern and spinsterish way she had adopted after putting aside her book — hands folded in her lap and feet planted firmly together. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Silent]
And I would not recommend the strangely spinsterish Gibson Girl topknot for anyone but plump, curvaceous girls with fabulous skin and little rosebud mouths. From Wordnik.com. [Collared! - A Dress A Day] Reference
The Women's Branch was under instructions to recruit 'the right type', meaning lower middle-class, reasonably educated girls, not vinegary spinsterish women. From Wordnik.com. [Bottled Spider]
Reviewed by Terry Castle ( "Gender Bending, Part 2," October 2005) "Mew's poems are few, somber, and spinsterish, but in their sad, shriveled way supremely beautiful.". From Wordnik.com. [Books in Brief] Reference
In a nervous, thin voice that suited her spinsterish name, she described the scare tactics her former employers had used, and how she had finally leaked the story to a local television station. From Wordnik.com. [Butchers Hill]
At the same time, an incipient fight broke out on the other side of the arc of tables between the head of the lan-guage department at Mallorysport Academy and a spinsterish ama'teur phoneticist. From Wordnik.com. [The Fuzzy Papers]
I wondered how the spinsterish Ida would make out. From Wordnik.com. [Ida Hauchawout] Reference
She devoted herself to admiring the spinsterish Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
Ernie: So I held the door of the elevator open for these two women, mother and her thirty-something spinsterish daughter. From Wordnik.com. [barefoot meandering] Reference
An aging beauty looks on winter in Central Park and notes, "even those floozies, the cherry trees, have turned spinsterish in the cold.". From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
There were five acacia trees planted on either side of the unfinished roadway, but they had been blighted in their youth, and their branches were spinsterish and threadbare. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark House] Reference
Set in a drought-ridden rural town in the West in Depression era America, this dramatic play tells the story of a pivotal hot summer day in the life of spinsterish Lizzie Curry. From Wordnik.com. [PegasusNews.com stories] Reference
Sometimes thought of as a potentially creative girl, delicately lovely; sometimes as a somewhat older woman, intelligent but rather pedantic and spinsterish. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
In clipped tones she says: "Miss Marple was far more spinsterish than my grandmother was. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Express News Feeds] Reference
Of all people, faded, spinsterish Bessie!. From Wordnik.com. [Best Detective Stories]
He is at once spinsterish and architectural. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster] Reference
Mew, Charlotte, poet, creosote suicide of, 119; spinsterish virtuosity of, 119. From Wordnik.com. [Who's Who] Reference
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