He was no better than a motherless child.
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Motherless
Synonyms for "motherless" (30 found)
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1 entriesfamily status
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3 entriesCollocations
6 entriesmotherless childmotherless conditionmotherless environmentmotherless girlmotherless societymotherless son
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12 total sentences available.
For some years the poor man lived on alone with the children, caring for them as best he could; but everything in the house seemed to go wrong without a woman to look after it, and at last he made up his mind to marry again, feeling that a wife would bring peace and order to his household and take care of his motherless children.
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You poor motherless children! How I pity you; and yet I can do nothing to help you!
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Sometimes I feel like a motherless child.
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