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a married woman in charge of a household
She was career-minded and never intended to be a 1950s style housewife.
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Recent Examples of housewives
The only way that such a minor joke would set a fiancée off is if her engagement was already in a delicate place, and that is none of the housewives’ jobs to fix.
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Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
Emily mumbled a weak excuse when the real answer is simply that all of the housewives stir up trouble for each other by gossiping and sniping behind each other’s backs.
—Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 6 Nov. 2025
The crux of the cast was assembled around Marks’ friend group in New York City — not the idea of a show with the offspring of housewives.
—Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
The new series assembles 10 housewives from across the continent for what producers are calling a celebration of Pan-African sisterhood and glamor.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
Saint John wasn't the first to speak about this condition, as housewives from New York, Potomac and Atlanta also have shared their journeys through the years.
—Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Finding and renting a desirable apartment in New York today requires such concessions of conscience, income, and pride that surgeons have postponed operations, housewives have gone back to work, hippies have cut their hair, and families have destroyed their pets.
—Nicholas Pileggi, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2025
The Netflix series follows housewives in East Texas who welcome in a newcomer from Boston.
—Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for housewives
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The veteran sideline reporter and member of FOX Sports’ A-Team braved the freezing temperature in Philly by swaddling herself in a capacious coat, which drew comparisons to a diverse array of notorious icons of warmth including Cruella De Ville, Jon Snow, emus, mob wives, pimps, and Ric Flair.—
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His teammates are all close by too, which has made for easy hangouts, quiet walks around the neighbourhood with the dogs, wives and kids.—
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Beam was known to have a very large extended family, but at home, he was surrounded by the love of three special women — his wife, Cindi, and two daughters, Sonjha and Monica.—
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Although women from North East, Kent, and Wessex appeared to want to leave their hometowns for a new world, specifically.—
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Around him sat ten women—all of them homemakers and nurses—and one seven-year-old girl.—
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“Housewives.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/housewives. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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