She never looked more wasted and old-maidish than when thus affirming her wifely rights.
He's an old-maidish sort of fellow, and is easily frightened.
Was I, in fact, becoming fanciful and old-maidish—ready to find error in shadows, and crimes in everything?
Since her engagement, Tims's old-maidish bringing up seemed to be bearing fruit for the first time.
Laughing at her old-maidish precautions, they let her have her way.
