hausfrau

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Recent Examples of hausfrau The German actress could draft off her own Lead Actress campaign to score two nominations in the same year — a feat last pulled off by Scarlett Johansson, who in a weird bit of Oscar symmetry also got her Supporting nod for playing a German hausfrau in World War II. Vulture, 19 Jan. 2024 Deborah Greenspan, an energetic hausfrau whose principal cause is resettling immigrants, has decided to host an inventive, and obnoxious, dinner party. Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023 Harry's alter ego is a dull breadwinner who, like most male suburbanites, bores his hausfrau (Jamie Lee Curtis) with the minutiae of his drab job. Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2019 Her father was a music teacher, her mother a hausfrau or a housewife. Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 3 Apr. 2018 Being a mother involves being an efficient hausfrau. John Richardson, Town & Country, 13 Oct. 2015
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hausfrau
Noun
  • Here was the postwar American housewife—neatly dressed, pretty, poised, active—stepping unwittingly into a scene of utter depravity and sadism that reflected back at this wholesome young mother the darkest recesses of the human mind.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
  • To create the showbiz charade of being a beast in the ring and a nice presentable housewife the rest of the time.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There are also a handful of returning faces in this new set of episodes, chief among them the aforementioned Martin, who is both the least experienced homemaker of all of Meghan’s friends and the person who best reflects the show’s premise.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Their father, José, a wealthy Cuban-American entertainment executive, lived a life of privilege in Beverly Hills, while their mother, Kitty, was a former schoolteacher and homemaker.
    Hannah Parry Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The best bit for the housekeepers?
    Mattias Goldmann, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Last year, while our house was being vacuumed by a housekeeper, Butch bit her on her calf.
    Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Hausfrau.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hausfrau. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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