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home-wrecking, a. Chiefly U.S.
Brit. |ˈhəʊmˌrɛkɪŋ|, U.S. |ˈhoʊmˌrɛkɪŋ|
[‹ home n.1 + wrecking adj. Compare slightly earlier home-wrecker n.]
Designating a person who or thing which breaks up or badly damages a family or relationship; esp. (depreciative) designating a person blamed for the break-up of a marriage because of an affair with one of the partners (cf. home-wrecker n.).
1914H. G. Wells Social Forces in Eng. & Amer. 253 There are..desertion, domestic neglect, cruelty to the children, drunkenness or harmful drug-taking, indecency of living and uncontrollable extravagance. I cannot conceive how any logical mind, having once admitted the principle of divorce, can hesitate at making these entirely home-wrecking things the basis of effective pleas. 1933W. Faulkner Artist at Home in Coll. Stories (1934) 642 And here we are again: the bald husband, the rural plute, and this dashing blade, this home-wrecking poet. 1972Jrnl. Interdisciplinary Hist. 3 445 The importance [to the status of children] of a home-wrecking adult mortality. 1998St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 31 Jan. 34 She's a spoiled little rich girl, a homewrecking teen-ager. |