Here "Captain Shandon, " editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, is simply an uxorious drunk.

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Unlike those for car insurance, the premiums are flat rates: the libidinous will pay the same as the uxorious.

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Walter had strong feelings about courtesy and fairness and amity, and he was borderline uxorious as a husband, but he was apparently willing neither to support his wife nor to curb her.

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