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Sunday, July 29, 2012

246. Uxorious


From, "Mitt's Olympic Meddle," by Maureen Dowd, The New York Times, 7/28/12:

In his [Romney's] interview with Brian Williams in London, Romney couldn’t resist giving himself the laurels for saving the Salt Lake City Games by analyzing whether the British ones were off by a hair, or a hire.
Then he tried to scamper back to the obligatory common-man script and ended up looking clumsy and the one thing he most certainly is not: unuxorious.


Uxorious:  Having or showing an excessive or submissive fondness for one's wife

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