Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
unmarried .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word unmarrieds.
Examples
-
It will penalize married couples with higher premiums than unmarrieds as a just one example of the bad effects of this “health care reform” The insurance companies and drug companies give up nothing to gain 30 million new pawns.
-
But those who are currently married may be slightly more forgiving: Only 6% say both are grounds for divorce, compared with about 10% of the unmarrieds.
-
“It is significant that no unmarried heterosexual couple has felt the need to sue the hotel” — well, mere unmarrieds have no special anti-discrimination legislation to sue with.
Gay couple sue Christian hotel owners « Anglican Samizdat 2009
-
At weddings it sometimes looks like a “singles” or an unmarrieds table and at one wedding in particular it looked like a “lesbians” table enough for a table, not enough to be sprinkled amongst the group apparently but I am always there.
Ten Things Tuesday: Stress Monkey Edition « The Life and Times of Organic Mama 2008
-
Only 30 percent said they'd socialized with friends in the same period, in contrast to 70 percent of unmarrieds.
You Never Call Me 2008
-
What has continued to trouble me since that first invitation as a single nearly 15 years ago isn't the game itself, but the way the game treats unmarrieds as outcasts.
-
Because unmarrieds skew younger, they historically vote in low numbers.
-
This increase in unmarrieds is just an uptick - the number was 49% six years ago - but it's being greeted as a terrifying sign of social collapse among the conservative-minded - indeed, it's framed as a terrifying tipping point in the ever-descending path of the American family.
-
We're in the middle of what historians are calling the worst epidemic of unmarrieds in the country.
-
For one, married people are on average more satisfied with their sex lives than unmarrieds.
Is he 107 because he stopped having sex when he was 30? Ann Althouse 2007
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.