Termagant

/ˈtɜːməɡ(ə)nt/

Synonyms for "termagant" (102 found)

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beingdisagreeable personpersonstereotypetropeunpleasant personwoman

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bullycharacter typeharridanshrewstock charactertyrant

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termagant behaviortermagant figuretermagant rhetorictermagant stereotypetermagant tempertermagant woman

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Sample sentences

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[…] I do not find hovv his E[xcellenc]y can be juſtly cenſured for favouring none but High-Church, High-flyers, Termagants, Laudiſts, Sacheverellians, Tip-top-gallon-men, Jacobites, Tantivyes, Anti-Hannoverians, Friends to Popery and the Pretender, and to Arbitrary Povver, […]

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[T]wo raw lads from a certain great manufacturing town […] were in the act of seeking for the speediest exit from the gardens; rather choosing to resign their share of the dinner, than to abide the farther consequences that might follow from the displeasure of his Highland Termagaunt.

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No person who had a natural interest in the Princess [Anne, Queen of Great Britain] could observe without uneasiness the strange infatuation which made her the slave of an imperious and reckless termagant [Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough].

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Yonder is Sarah Marlborough's palace, just as it stood when that termagant occupied it.

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