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  • noun a former husband.

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  • noun a man who was formerly a certain woman's husband

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Examples

  • Next, she called her ex-husband and asked him to meet her in the ER, to help get Debora admitted.

    Bitter Harvest Ann Rule 2000

  • With her thoughts centered on Holt, it took her a second to realize Guy was referring to her ex-husband.

    The Rogue Janet Dailey 1980

  • With her thoughts centered on Holt, it took her a second to realize Guy was referring to her ex-husband.

    The Rogue Janet Dailey 1980

  • And, he my ex-husband, that is questioned me about it.

    Save as draft Cavanaugh Lee 2011

  • And, he my ex-husband, that is questioned me about it.

    Save as draft Cavanaugh Lee 2011

  • He was just walking me to my car—Billy, that is, my ex-husband of nine years.

    Christmas Magic Jack Canfield 2010

  • Jilly uncorked her bottle of wine and called her ex-husband in Tucson.

    Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006

  • Jilly uncorked her bottle of wine and called her ex-husband in Tucson.

    Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006

  • Jilly uncorked her bottle of wine and called her ex-husband in Tucson.

    Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006

  • But any woman who could use that word pedant, I reasoned, call her ex-husband “duplicitous” and a “narcissist,” and describe an assistant manager we both worked for as a “troglodyte” was a woman I felt I could spend time talking to and perhaps even want to live with, despite the three kids, a first husband, and her extra year in age.

    Closing Time Joseph Heller 1994

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