Had established herself in her career at the price of being so undomestic she didn't even know how to light the oven. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : domestic pleasures. ,domestic trade. ,domestic goods. From Dictionary.com.
In case my undomestic skills were ever questioned, this exchange should prove it. From Wordnik.com. [In case my undomestic skills were ever questioned, this exchange should prove it. «] Reference
It comes out straight from Sophie Kinsella's undomestic goddess's kitchen though. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
It was in vain to argue the tyranny of some husbands, when he could turn upon us the follies of some wives; and that wives and daughters were never more faulty, more undomestic, than at present; and when we were before a judge, who, though he could not be absolutely unpolite, would not flatter us, nor spare our foibles. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
Before ma got ill, I was an undomestic goddess, I didnt have a clue how to do anything because my ma always did everything for me the spoilt only child. From Wordnik.com. [grown up] Reference
In English travel writing, at least, the most radical departure from this undomestic norm is made by Eric Newby, who actually takes his wife with him on his travels, his wife being Wanda, the woman who rescued him from the Nazis in World War II. From Wordnik.com. [Now Voyager] Reference
Besides, life in Paris is such an expensive mode of existence, the simplest pleasures there are so very costly, and there are so many microscopic issues through which money pours away in that undomestic life, in that career passed almost continually in public, that one must have a considerable fortune, or lead an extremely retired life. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference
Monica's undomestic life, and perhaps the association with those. From Wordnik.com. [The Odd Women] Reference
Now that he was absent from his wife -- for he had been thrice married -- this very undomestic poet discovered that he had a deep affection for her. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
However wayward and tigerish and undomestic she may be, she then desires to be the acknowledged possession and belonging of the man, even to her own dishonour. From Wordnik.com. [Three Weeks] Reference
But I have had this disease so long, and my early education was so undomestic, that. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey] Reference
To this shift he was driven, in great part, by the undomestic character of his children; who, so soon as they arrived at an age for handling the rifle, individually and infallibly ran off into the woods, until, as the passion for hunting grew with their growth, they might be said almost to live in them. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawks of Hawk-hollow] Reference
Susan is a clumsy undomestic single mother who's always getting herself into some kind of trouble. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Glad to see i'm not the only one obsessively checking my email! you have to start reading marley and me, the undomestic goddess and something borrowed then read her other two books, they are really good. good luck with the resolutions!. From Wordnik.com. [My 2007 New Year's Resolutions] Reference
You sound pretty undomestic to me. From Wordnik.com. [Sufficient Grace] Reference
She was amazingly undomestic. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of Bill] Reference
I led an undomestic wanderer's life, 350. From Wordnik.com. [THE PRELUDE BOOK FOURTEENTH] Reference
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