Meaning

Alternative form of old-wifish..

Example Sentences

As it is, however, if the House of Lords continue to prate the same old-wivish drivel they have been doing for the last twenty years, in this case, against French revolutions, and Prussian Agrarian Laws, we will not warrant the English nobility.

“Tak’ a drappy mair, sir,” he whispered in a coaxing, old-wivish tone; “it’s a lang road to the kirkyard.”

The foolish squabblings of old-wivish theologians over unimportant issues in Holy Writ, the sick frenzies of fanatical Catholics and Calvinists, the spiritual darkness of the Middle Ages and bygone centuries, none of these escape the whip of the author, who scourges them as the usurers driven from the Temple of God.

There is also her sadly beautiful but rambling old-wivish account of the last hours of Falstaff (H V, II, iii, 9-28).

SOMEBODY ELSE said that moles will leave the yard of anybody who plants castor beans. Mary thinks this suggestion is a little old-wivish. She wants more direct action. Any ideas?

So long as he raved through the mouth of a fabulous Hebrew and reveled in old-wivish misconstructions of the book of nature, these ruling-class academies were prepared to tolerate his assaults upon the ethos of that class.

Word Forms

• more old-wivish
• most old-wivish

When Should You Use Old-wivish?

Use old-wivish when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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