half-brother


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Synonyms for half-brother

a brother who has only one parent in common with you

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It has been supposed that the man to whom she gave her misplaced confidence, acted throughout in concert with her half-brother; that it was a conspiracy between them; and that they shared the profits."
"He may have been married already, and her cruel mortification may have been a part of her half-brother's scheme," said Herbert.
I must tell this also; that Dingaan would have killed Panda, his half-brother, so that the house of Senzangacona, his father, might be swept out clean.
"Then Gagool went into a hut and led out Twala, my half-brother, and twin brother to the king, whom she had hidden among the caves and rocks since he was born, and stripping the '/moocha/' (waist-cloth) off his loins, showed the people of the Kukuanas the mark of the sacred snake coiled round his middle, wherewith the eldest son of the king is marked at birth, and cried out loud, 'Behold your king whom I have saved for you even to this day!'
A MUM-of-two who drove her half-brother home after he stole a car, cash and credit cards from a house said she had no idea he was planning the crime.
Jakarta -- The Indonesian woman accused of killing Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of North Korea's Kim Jong-un, has been freed after charges against her were dropped.
Last year a Malaysian judge says he cannot rule out the possibility that the murder of North Korean leader estranged half-brother was a political assassination.
She has been trying to find him the moment she learnt about his existence a few months ago."I am looking for my half-brother, who was born in Krupina around 1949 or 1950," Jennifer Brooks from Florida wrote in her e-mail sent to the Slovak Spectator.
MPD director Chief Superintendent Rolando Anduyan believes his name is being linked with the case of his half-brother because he was rumored to run as a congressman in Iligan.
Joseph Victor 'JV' Ejercito didn't mind that half-brother, Jinggoy Estrada, was planning to reclaim his old seat in the Senate.
Summary: Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], October 25 (ANI): Two women, accused of killing Korean leader's half-brother Kim Jong-nam, were brought on Tuesday to Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur International Airport, where the crime took place, in order to recap the sequence of events of the fateful day.
Dubai: A man has been accused of forging official papers claiming that his half-brother is a minor so he could sell land that they inherited from their late father.
King Abdullah, who took power in 2005 after the death of his half-brother King Fahd, is believed to be 91.