wedlocked en · ADJ
Etymology
From wedlock + -ed.
Meanings
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(colloquial, humorous, not-comparable) United in wedlock.
That's manipulative, the conventional take on a wife who chose to stay wedlocked to her perma-tanned husband despite his chronically cheesy behaviour, from phone calls to a sex chat line (purportedly for the purpose of opinion polling, a typical Berlusconi stunt) to old-coot flirting with curvaceous TV starlets (some of whom he put forward as candidates in the upcoming European parliamentary elections) to verbal (at minimum) groping of women who usually sex-wagged right back.
2009 May 11, Rosie DiManno, “No girl power in shaming cheats”, in Toronto Star: