wife-beater

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She was wearing a torn wife-beater and her hair was in long, fluorescent pink dreads down to her waist.

Plenty of scoundrels have been sent to the galleys for less than that, but the courts won't concern themselves with a wife-beater.

The man was a wife-beater when drunk, which he was whenever he had “the price.”

In the cell next to him was a drunken wife-beater and in the one beyond a yelling maniac.

They comfortably jail and feed a wife-beater, and leave his innocent wife and children to starve.

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