Shrewish

//ˈʃɹuː.ɪʃ//

Synonyms for "shrewish" (65 found)

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French

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  • acariâtre adj (of or pertaining to a shrew (ill-tempered, nagging woman))

Tagalog

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  • mataray adj (of or pertaining to a shrew (ill-tempered, nagging woman))

Sample sentences

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“For my own part,” she rejoined, “I must confess that I never could see any beauty in her. Her face is too thin; her complexion has no brilliancy; and her features are not at all handsome. Her nose wants character; there is nothing marked in its lines. Her teeth are tolerable, but not out of the common way; and as for her eyes, which have sometimes been called so fine, I never could perceive any thing extraordinary. They have a sharp, shrewish look, which I do not like at all; and in her air altogether, there is a self-sufficiency without fashion, which is intolerable.”

Source: wiktionary

Her part. Good grief, he realized; he hadn’t written any dialogue that included her, the slinky, breast-heavy, nipple-dilated female intelligence agent – he had only done scenes between Ziggy Trots and his shrewish wife.

Source: wiktionary

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