unmarriageable

It didn't sound like the amusement of a ponderous, unmarriageable daughter.

Women who can feel sexual pleasure are considered impossible to control and so are unmarriageable.

If the information were released, carriers could potentially become unmarriageable within the community."

He did need a woman, and he understood the condition of being virtually unmarriageable.

Women born in hinoeuma years are believed to be unmarriageable and to bring bad luck to their father or husband.

He forced her to withdraw from the college, fearing that an educated woman would be unmarriageable.

Even if disclosure doesn't render you unmarriageable, tricky questions linger.

'By the standards of Mordant, we are merely two women living with our father because he has found us unmarriageable.

He wished me far away from him, politically powerless, and demonstrably unmarriageable.

Her mother resisted the idea of higher education for her daughters, believing it would make them unmarriageable.

She said a young woman with diabetes, for example, is often deemed damaged and unmarriageable, or must marry into a lower caste.

Her mother resisted sending McClintock to college, for fear that she would be unmarriageable.

We assume the flock supplied a majority of largely unmarriageable daughters (basically cruel times, those).

Galileo placed Virginia and her sister in a convent at an early age because, having been born out of wedlock, they were considered unmarriageable.

He's also built a mousetrap factory and staffed it with a semi-captive labor force of unmarriageable girls.

These conditions often make their lives unstable, and disqualify them from raising a home effectively, in effect brand them as "unmarriageable".

But the nieces were unmarriageable.

Mary, whose smallpox scars render her more or less unmarriageable, exists for the moments she can discuss literature with her brother.

Hanna, who resisted the advances of the man who sought to marry her - which resulted in the attack - is among those deemed unmarriageable.

By the fifteenth century they seem to have become dumping grounds for unwanted, unmarriageable or troublesome genteel ladies of little fortune.

'Hostess' and 'mistress', both imply certain kinds of sexual behaviour; 'spinster'implies not only unmarried but unmarriageable.

Mykel being a false priest, Aneth would not be legally married, and thus shamed and unmarriageable.

She loved it from the start, but her parents pulled her out at the end of the year, worried that too much education would make her unmarriageable.

While the actress took delight in her comic role, it distressed her to think about the "total powerlessness" of young women whose circumstances made them unmarriageable.

Full of useless, ribald wisdom about women and relationships, he's an ungovernable, unmarriageable, desperately lonely man who, when not working, won't stop chattering to young Will.