(n.) The husband of one's mother by a subsequent marriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kimberley Carlile , aged four, was starved and beaten by her stepfather in Greenwich, east London, in 1986.
(2) The deputy prime minister branded the treatment meted out to the four-year-old by his mother, Magdelena Luczak, and stepfather, Mariusz Krezolek, as evil and vile, but suggested it was up to the whole of society to stop such tragedies.
(3) The mother and stepfather of a four-year-old boy who was battered to death after being subjected to a six-month regime of starvation and physical torture will be jailed for life on Friday after being found guilty of murdering the boy, whose body was so emaciated that one experienced health worker compared it to that of a concentration camp victim.
(4) So I wrote this everyday story about Jenny living with her father - and stepfather.
(5) In 2011, his mother remarried and Joseph, who said he suffered from Asperger syndrome, found it hard to connect with his new stepfather.
(6) Although we will all miss her beyond belief, we absolutely know she will live in our hearts forever.” Courtney Boyle, 19 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Courtney Boyle Boyle’s family confirmed she had been killed with her stepfather, Philip Tron, in Monday’s terrorist attack.
(7) The girl, her two siblings, mother and stepfather shared a rented room in Luque, a town on the outskirts of Asunción.
(8) His stepfather, Mick Jones, was a founding member of rock band Foreigner.
(9) Children's services at a council that came under fire over the death of a four-year-old boy beaten to death by his mother and stepfather have been branded inadequate by Ofsted.
(10) In this comparison of 59 incestuous stepfathers, 70 incestuous biological fathers, and 158 offenders against unrelated children, there were few substantial differences in psychological characteristics between fathers and stepfathers, but their life histories and marital histories differed significantly.
(11) Such conditions in the mother relate to the daughters' reports of adverse family experience involving maternal antipathy and neglect and physical and sexual abuse, most usually at the hands of a father or stepfather.
(12) His later identifications were affected by his mother, brother and especially his stepfather.
(13) Two survivors of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, where 32 people died, were present, as well as the stepfather of an Aurora, Colorado, massacre victim.
(14) The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather.
(15) Faced with a violent stepfather and a mother with mental health issues (from whom he is now estranged), he took solace in his teddy bear, Alan Measles.
(16) In the 50s and 60s, the American jazz greats – Charlie Parker , Duke Ellington , her stepfather, the trumpeter Don Cherry – were "treated like kings in this strange, clean place full of people who were obsessed with their music", she says.
(17) In this case, what I find it impossible to get my head round is that the mother and stepfather actually starved him.
(18) In 27% of the cases the abuser was the mother, 21% the father, 14% stepfather, 3% daycaretaker, while the remainder were combinations or unknown.
(19) I moved to Dorset with my mother and stepfather when I was six and, despite his sight loss, Dad would come halfway – sometimes all the way – on the train to collect me for the weekend.
(20) An 11-year old girl who became pregnant after being raped by her stepfather and was denied an abortion by Paraguayan authorities has given birth, in the culmination of a case which put renewed focus on Latin America’s strict anti-abortion laws.
Stepsister
Definition:
(n.) A daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) His stepsister, Carmen Nesnick, told CBS Los Angeles that he travelled to the US as a young boy.
(2) Melissa, Danielle’s oldest daughter, was back in the picture, helping them raise her two young stepsisters.
(3) He was outed only when his stepsister found his diary.
(4) Kim Jong-un also has four step siblings: three stepsisters and one stepbrother.
(5) Gerwig, meanwhile, is ideally cast as glamorous Brooke Cardinas, her putative stepsister, who dreams of writing a hit TV series, or possibly a cabaret, and yet appears to be spinning her wheels as she slides beyond 30.
(6) In the opinion of the project committee, clinical experience should be a primary consideration in the curriculum design process, not merely a stepsister to the cognitive aspects.
(7) My stepsister has not been able to get a British passport so she has not been able to join us here to this day, even when my father passed away.
(8) Lily James , who joined the show as wild child Lady Rose in series three, landed the title role in Disney’s retelling of Cinderella, directed by Sir Kenneth Branagh, which also starred Downton’s Sophie McShera , aka kitchen maid Daisy, as one of the wicked stepsisters.