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Shrewish
Shrewish meaning
Of or pertaining to a shrew (a nagging, ill-tempered woman). | Bad-tempered; ill-natured; obstinate, as a shrew.
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Example sentences (4)
A happy ending prevails for all – except for poor Senex, stuck with his shrewish wife Domina.
A manipulative, shrewish woman who is loathed by even her husband.
Lamb has, like many Thorne Smith heroes, a shrewish (and in this case adulterous) wife who at one point tries to murder him (at the time he is a goldfish).
Wells states, "I hate and despise a shrewish suspicion of foreigners and foreign ways; a man who can look me in the face, laugh with me, speak truth and deal fairly, is my brother, though his skin is as black as ink or as yellow as an evening primrose".