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What is the adjective for henpecks?

What's the adjective for henpecks? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb henpeck which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

henpecked
  1. (husband) Intimidated or overwhelmed by a nagging or overbearing wife or girlfriend.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Cartoons were once populated by henpecked husbands and conniving wives in hair curlers.”
      “Luciana appears near incoherent and her debonair, eloquent lover a frazzled and henpecked rube.”
      “It soon becomes clear that the reason the Baron is so henpecked is because of the high corn factor of his lines.”
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