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[ UK /hˈæɹɪdən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a scolding (even vicious) old woman

How To Use harridan In A Sentence

  • No less a harridan for safety than the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has dubbed his campaign misguided. Driving Distraction
  • Look up "harridan" in the dictionary and Annie's picture looks back at you. Ann Coulter Loses It, Calls Elizabeth Edwards A "Harridan"
  • I really thought before I used the word harridan to describe Senator Clinton's outburst. Hillary: "Shame On You, Barack Obama"
  • They were both men who stayed with and took care of fairly unstable women who could be utterly charming and loveable on one side and frightening harridans on the other.
  • And they proceeded to blindly follow the heartless, shrewish harridan Margaret Thatcher. Martin Lewis: Murdoch Most Foul
  • I think I am this nice, gentle person but everyone, including my best friends, tells me I am a horrible harridan who frightens people.
  • Is that really the most unflattering picture you could find of that boot-faced harridan? Jade Goody Tries To Make Peace With India
  • I recalled a harridan of satanic disposition old enough to have written the first drafts of most of her charges. Petty Pewter Gods
  • Many of the revisionists want to replace her angel image with another female archetype, the harridan.
  • And Hunt's character, a humourless, hatchet-faced harridan with an undercurrent of insecurity, gives very little for the audience to engage with.
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