domestic happiness
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdomesticandhappiness
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domestic
adjective
uk/dəˈmes.tɪk/us/dəˈmes.tɪk/
relating to a person's ...
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happiness
noun[U]
uk/ˈhæp.i.nəs/us/ˈhæp.i.nəs/
the feeling of ...
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(Definition ofdomesticandhappinessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This process entailed the constitution of new political identities for the working class that stressed their respectability, sobriety and commitment to the ideals ofdomestichappiness.
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I want to ask one or two questions about thedomestichappinessof the soldier.
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I wish if only from the point of view of thedomestichappinessof the people involved, that these cases did not exist.
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That deters any man with any spark of domestic love or desire fordomestichappinessfrom committing such an offence.
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They settled on the land for their owndomestichappiness, and for the advantage of the agricultural industry.
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How easy it would be if a barrister could securedomestichappinessfor a couple of quid.
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So, as we trust,domestichappinessand the public weal will be conjoined in this union.
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Not only are you undermining physical wellbeing of many thousands of our people, but you are at the same time destroying a vast amount ofdomestichappiness.
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I think it will promotedomestichappiness.
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Gambling tells againstdomestichappiness.
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Raising standards in schools not only createsdomestichappinessin families; it improves the country's economy in relation to that of its competitors, which is of the utmost importance.
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Perhaps as a result of this career-change and new-founddomestichappiness, his bibliographic output increased dramatically, and by 1910 he had published thirteen papers on optics, astronomy, and spectroscopy.
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