motherless

Speech parts

1. motherless - Adjective

2. motherless - Adverb

3. motherless - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children.

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Examples

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones. Louis de Bernieres

A woman just gave birth to a prince today and dressed him in scarlet. He'll put the priest in his pocket, put the blade to the heat, take the motherless children off the street and place them at the feet of a harlot. Bob Dylan

There's this idea that at the lowest rungs of the social ladder in an African family is a childless woman - and the lowest rung of all is a motherless child. Ayobami Adebayo

Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care. Darren Shan

The motherless child will suckle the grandmother. Bambara Proverb

He viewed it as "motherless paternity in the place of fatherless maternity" where once altered, Athena's character was to be crystallized as that of a patriarch. Source: Internet

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