bedfellow
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oʊ noun
1.
Also called bedmate. a person who shares one's bed.
2.
an associate or collaborator, especially one who forms a temporary alliance for reasons of expediency: Politics makes strange bedfellows.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a person with whom one shares a bed |
| 2. | a temporary ally or associate |
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Bedfellow
is always a great word to know.
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Example sentences
It shows how a strong belief in mysticism makes a strange bedfellow with modern politics.
Now the wooers clamoured throughout the shadowy halls, and each one uttered a prayer to be her bedfellow.
Let us be mindful that forgetfulness is not a bedfellow of forgiveness.
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