What is "spinsterish"

Usage examples of "spinsterish".

The spinsterish Misses Weatherby, whose only weapon was gossiping tongues.

But then, both sisters were enamored of Squire Hawkinville in their pathetic, spinsterish way.

There should be no complaint about that, she thought, feeling dowdy and spinsterish when she returned to where Desborough waited.

Even her daughter, Gnaea, just grew plainer and more spinsterish as the years passed.

Clinging to her spinsterish persona like a drowning woman clutching at an overhanging branch, she turned and faced him.

She wanted him to see her as an unattractive, spinsterish shrew, for all that she was technically his wife.

Her lips had tightened in a way that he found oddly reminiscent of her spinsterish pose.

Jeremiah delighted in her presence through the fading whiff of her rose water that she had sprinkled sparsely on her spinsterish body.

Face carefully made-up, hair short and neatly combed, Gerda was still pretty in a severe spinsterish style.

Unless she married soon, Bond thought for the hundredth time, or had a lover, her cool air of authority might easily become spinsterish and she would join the army of women who had married a career.

She had become The Shawl Lady, a spinsterish figure if ever there was one.

The earl was willing to do things that would benefit hundreds of people, and it would be madness to forfeit that because of a spinsterish attack of nerves.

Her spinsterish breasts waxed nonexistent on a chest as flat as his battle shield.

In this she had the expert assistance of Miss Hephzibah Cardle, my lady’s own dresser, whose spinsterish form and acidulated countenance could have led no one to suppose that she combined a rare talent for turning her mistress out complete to the last feather with a jealous adoration of that singularly unappreciative lady.