loveless marriage

collocation in English

meaningsoflovelessandmarriage

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loveless
adjective
uk
/ˈlʌv.ləs/us
/ˈlʌv.ləs/
without ...
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marriage
noun
uk
/ˈmær.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈmer.ɪdʒ/
a legally accepted relationship between two people in which they live together, or the official ceremony that results ...
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(Definition oflovelessandmarriagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofloveless marriage

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Earlier in our deliberations there was talk of the parties being locked in alovelessmarriage.
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It was alovelessmarriagearranged by their parents.
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She played a woman caught in alovelessmarriage.
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To force alovelessmarriageat the present would, in my opinion, be to take grave risks.
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It cannot properly be spoken of as a dead marriage or being locked in alovelessmarriage.
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It is a tempting antidote to herlovelessmarriageand boring, small-town life.
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Isaburo is in alovelessmarriagewith a shrew of a woman.
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She is in alovelessmarriagewith her husband and only married him to help payoff her fathers debts.
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She told him she was unwilling to bring a baby into alovelessmarriageand broke it off.
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Other films depict a tawaif in a supporting role, often in situations where a man in alovelessmarriagegoes to her.
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Hislovelessmarriagetook 18 years to produce a son, with some saying his wife even sought magical wards against bearing his child.
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Not wanting the princesses to be forced into alovelessmarriage, she offers herself to marry one of the ruler's sons.
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She, originally rich in her own right, is trapped in alovelessmarriageto a man she despises, who keeps her from the town-based society she adores.
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The lovers are separated and the doctor, due to a misleading event, believes his sweetheart to be dead and resigns himself to a dejected life and alovelessmarriage.
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