ortho-cousin

Definitions

Examples

• Mating with a cousin or brother is safer than risking life and limb to mate with an outsider.

• “A mother has lost a son,” referring to his late cousin Akai.

• The savvy forger with Pappy empties to fill might get his hands on some Old Weller and present it as its more illustrious cousin.

• A few worries, to be sure, but not that cousin of depression and anxiety, dread.

• The second-to-last time we met Zalwar Khan, he brought a man he introduced as his cousin.

• Cousin George's position is such a happy one, that conversation is to him a thing superfluous.

• From the moment that he touches the magical little hand, cousin George is eclipsed.

• As a matter of fact, it was a very distant cousin of hers who had died, a Mrs. Fanshawe Collingwood, who also lived in the town.

• The Professor thought very kindly of the dead cousin, whose money would provide for this great work.

• Never had Tom seen his gay and careless cousin in such guise: he was restless, silent, intense and inarticulate.