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fatherless

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for fatherless.

Editorial note

Or is it because you are what happens when children are raised by three generations of fatherless homes?

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

Without a (living) father.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of fatherless gathered in one view.

adjective

Without a (living) father.

adjective

(figurative) Without a known author or inventor.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for fatherless.

Example sentences

1

Or is it because you are what happens when children are raised by three generations of fatherless homes?

2

Being fatherless isn’t in itself the issue, but everything which came before to reach that point might be.

3

There has to be real consequences to fatherless children and women with 5 kids from 5 daddies.

4

How do the poor, the fatherless, and the oppressed benefit from living in ocean communities or as city states?

5

This is one of the great failures of our society, and the main reason there are so many fatherless children out there.

6

Or to join Gangs, or for many black families to be fatherless?

7

There are some US department of Justice data that shows stuff like 70% of people in prison being from fatherless homes and other things like that.

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[18] He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.

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For a liberal, it would be tough to swallow the idea that cultural dysfunction (fatherless kids and the gangs that fill that power vacuum) is a root cause.

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So when I got out of the hospital, I got to deal with the guilt at almost leaving her fatherless through terrible decision making.

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> How do the poor, the fatherless, and the oppressed benefit from living in ocean communities or as city states?

12

His children should become fatherless...

Quote examples

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And anon, this other began to cry and weep and to mis-say ["revile"] Merlin, and reproved him with a loud voice, and called him misbegotten wretch and fatherless.

2

Remember how since a lot of men died in WW2 so kids were growing up in fatherless homes which led to a rise in juvenile delinquency, and the government and parents instead of admitting fatherless homes are the issue, the "researchers" then blamed it on the violent comic books being the issue, so the government with support from parents introduced the Comics Code Authority regulations.

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I also don't know what you're talking about "fatherless homes", I was indeed raised without a father and still seem to be a much better representative of what it means to be a man than someone who justifies the mass killing of innocent women and children over a manufactured terrorist strike.

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>referring to Germans of Turkish origin as "fatherless vermin" and "camel drivers", who should go back to their "mud huts" and "multiple wives".

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use fatherless in a sentence?

Or is it because you are what happens when children are raised by three generations of fatherless homes?

What does fatherless mean?

Without a (living) father.

What part of speech is fatherless?

fatherless is commonly used as adjective.