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How to use stepchild in a sentence

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At that point, Stage Fright evidently became something of a redheaded stepchild among Hitchcock's oeuvre.
If it is true that the Feds are demanding this, it means that they are treating Newfoundland like an untrustworthy, idiot stepchild.
In the ridiculous world of NFL coaching, one team's golden boy is another's redheaded stepchild.
During its run on network television, Homicide was the prototypical redheaded stepchild.
I met Dante for lunch at Cafe Colonial, the red-headed stepchild to Cafe Habana.
It's the redheaded stepchild of many a training split, meekly sitting just out of sight as your chest and arms get all the attention.
No other single event epitomizes that fact so flagrantly as does Folk Fest, the red-headed stepchild of New York's annual Outsider Art Fair.
Treated as the redheaded stepchild of the Fox Sunday Night lineup, the show never truly found its audience, despite positive critical reviews.
The terms stepchild or stepchildren and step-parent or step-parents are used for ease of reference only in this document.
The adoption of a child other than a stepchild by both partners is still ruled out in all the jurisdictions mentioned.
This may, however, be the case when a stepchild is being adopted, but this type of adoption is also subject to careful examinations.
The first two objectives came into being, but agriculture remained the neglected stepchild of economic development.
Thanks to a dramatic jump in available varieties suitable for our growing niche, we're no longer the forgotten stepchild of the fruit-gardening world.
The terms stepchild, stepchildren, step-parent, and step-parents are used for ease of reference only.
A dependent child may be a natural child, a legally adopted child or a stepchild if the stepchild resides with the staff member.
Though the San Joaquin Valley was once regarded as the stepchild of the wine industry, the Madera appellation is proudly displayed on labels today.
Yet, descending remains the forgotten stepchild of bike racing, with far more attention given to climbing, sprinting and time trialing.
The essay will come into its own and cease being viewed as the stepchild of literature.
Atomic energy is seen by many, and with reason, as the misbegotten stepchild of the world's atom-bomb programmes: ill begun and badly done.
His wife, two of his children and his stepchild are all American-born.
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She not only despised but hated her stepchild from the moment that she saw her.
She had felt more shy than had Mona, about suggesting what her stepchild should call her.
Jealousy for her own infant daughter now made her hate her stepchild more and more.
It was a stepchild among camps, neither attractive enough to be loved nor disagreeable enough to be hated and reviled.
Malone exempted him, he being the sole support of his stepchild.
Tom Brangwen never loved his own son as he loved his stepchild Anna.
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