A shrewish wife. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Barbara, the wife, was an industrious but shrewish woman. From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
From another, she is a shrewish and controlling depressive. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Or Not, 'Freedom' Has Earned Its Accolades] Reference
My earlier post did have a shrewish edge that was unintended. From Wordnik.com. [schlub vs. heroine, round 74] Reference
I would not want to be on her bad side as she appears shrewish. From Wordnik.com. [badger Diary Entry] Reference
Kate is no longer shrewish or rebellious at the end of the play. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
People were talking about you, that you picked on him, you were shrewish. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2009] Reference
But that same reseit, iff your Honner so please, to cure a shrewish wife. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
MOOS: For the record, Albright is considered to be more gregarious than shrewish. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2006] Reference
I mean, if you do, you'll end up looking kind of like this kind of shrewish person. From Wordnik.com. [Please Don't Call Me 'Ma'am'] Reference
In retrospect she had been shrewish, but it had been only to bolster her confidence. From Wordnik.com. [Ghost King]
Anything she told him would come out shrewish; anything she said would be discounted. From Wordnik.com. [Winds Of Fate]
My dislike of Vivien rose as high as her cheekbones and felt as shrewish as her mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Money]
Do they not sometimes get called waspish and shrewish by virtue of their very chastity?. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
What on earth did Marco see in her, besides someone shrewish enough to give Maria words?. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Of The Lion]
When I fought with you I ruined my temper, grew shrewish, coarse, timid, mistrustful. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife] Reference
One Saturday night, Rittenberg danced with Jiang Qing, Mao's ambitious and shrewish wife. From Wordnik.com. [The American At Mao's Side] Reference
In the script, the screenwriter's wife is fat and shrewish and is hit by a bus on page 97. From Wordnik.com. [SO YOU WANNA WRITE A SCREENPLAY?] Reference
He calls her "shrewish", "looking (and failing, evidently) to find someone or something in. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
And on that occasion — — ‘Smith!’ screamed the shrewish voice from the telescreen. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Eighty-four] Reference
Here is how the world remembers her, if it remembers her at all: short, plump, shrewish, crazy. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Lincoln] Reference
Looking back, she remembered but little beyond the days she had passed with Johann and his shrewish wife. From Wordnik.com. [Adrien Leroy] Reference
The speech fell flat, because it made Clinton seem shrewish; most of the press coverage of it was negative. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton’s Personal Pitch] Reference
The fragile Deanie, meanwhile, is driven over the edge by her shrewish mother, and her own raging hormones. From Wordnik.com. [John Farr: Missing The Mark On Warren Beatty] Reference
The fragile Deanie, meanwhile, is driven over the edge by her shrewish mother (Audrey Christie) and her own raging hormones. From Wordnik.com. [John Farr: The Centennial of Elia Kazan] Reference
It was especially severe on rebellious servants, idle apprentices, shrewish women, the pigs that ran loose in the streets, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference
“Good woman,” said the magistrate to this shrewish supplicant — “tell us what it is you want, and do not interrupt the court.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
Even when the carriage came in sight he would not have been a bit surprised to have seen the crofter and his shrewish wife jump out of it. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
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