How To Use Harridan In A Sentence
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No less a harridan for safety than the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has dubbed his campaign misguided.
Driving Distraction
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Look up "harridan" in the dictionary and Annie's picture looks back at you.
Ann Coulter Loses It, Calls Elizabeth Edwards A "Harridan"
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I really thought before I used the word harridan to describe Senator Clinton's outburst.
Hillary: "Shame On You, Barack Obama"
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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.
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And they proceeded to blindly follow the heartless, shrewish harridan Margaret Thatcher.
Martin Lewis: Murdoch Most Foul
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I think I am this nice, gentle person but everyone, including my best friends, tells me I am a horrible harridan who frightens people.
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Is that really the most unflattering picture you could find of that boot-faced harridan?
Jade Goody Tries To Make Peace With India
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I recalled a harridan of satanic disposition old enough to have written the first drafts of most of her charges.
Petty Pewter Gods
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Many of the revisionists want to replace her angel image with another female archetype, the harridan.
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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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Quite a few disconsolate men complained that the ballot should have been secret, but they did so while lacerated by basilisk stares from the suspicious harridans they had brought with them.
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She pointed to several sheets of paper, written upon in a hand which shewed that the harridan had been no contemptible pen-woman in her younger days.
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New legislation would see the resurgence of independently-run local shops, run by surly harridans selling overpriced tins of out-of-date haslet.
Archive 2008-02-01
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A battalion of solid metaphysicians, reinforced by a tribe of tittering harridans and three companies of ventripotent buffoons, venture a daring sally.
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The wives become screaming harridans or, broken-spirited and doglike, lose what little decency and self-respect they have remaining over from their maiden days, and all sink together, unheeding, in their degradation and dirt.
THE GHETTO
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notmaxclifford - its just too ungallant to refer to Jenny as a 'harridan'.
Its Goodbye to Humour.
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She has been sitting there, chewing gum, and screaming like an old harridan.
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Over the years, I'd gone from what I fondly imagined to be a switched-on, youngish-minded mum to a rancid, middle-aged harridan, glaring at shrieking texting huddles in the street – youngsters I didn't even know, but would consider lightly birching.
It's all too easy to hate teens – try a little love instead | Barbara Ellen
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She later apologised but the judge said she was a ‘harridan’ who had acted like ‘an utter and absolute maniac’.
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By the 1940s, the mists of time had warped his vision to a few breast-plated harridans, some fire-breathing dragons and a liberal scattering of live animals.
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In my book, I refer to my mother as General Patton in pedal pushers, and frequently paint her as a shrieking harridan for whom water in the kitchen sink or unraked shag carpeting could produce bouts of rage: earsplitting, fist-shaking, God-summoning rage that fortunately predated the presence of guns in the suburban household.
Eric Poole: She has Every Right to Kill Me
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When that horrid old harridan halloed out that somebody was smoking, I thought I should have died.
The Duke's Children
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It is also deeply flawed by the lack of development of Charlotte's character - she is portrayed simply as a nagging harridan on the periphery of the story.
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He reached for the lamp a second time, feeling the bed shake as the harridan prepared to make her escape.
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She was a mean old harridan.
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In my book, I refer to my mother as General Patton in pedal pushers, and frequently paint her as a shrieking harridan for whom water in the kitchen sink or unraked shag carpeting could produce bouts of rage: earsplitting, fist-shaking, God-summoning rage that fortunately predated the presence of guns in the suburban household.
Eric Poole: She has Every Right to Kill Me
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A doormat for that bullying old harridan to wipe her feet on.
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In this column, Dowd claims that conservatives were trying to paint Michelle Obama as a "harridan", but of course she offers absolutely no examples of how conservatives were attempting this feat.
The Minority Report -
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The word "harridan" derives from the French word "haridelle" - a worn-out horse or nag.
THE NEWS BLOG
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Over the years, I'd gone from what I fondly imagined to be a switched-on, youngish-minded mum to a rancid, middle-aged harridan, glaring at shrieking texting huddles in the street – youngsters I didn't even know, but would consider lightly birching.
It's all too easy to hate teens – try a little love instead | Barbara Ellen
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In the first month of his new program, ever-aware Gandolo imprisoned the matriarchal Rotomor Gang and the triplet harridan sisters that commanded it, hung the notorious filcher Scynod of the Prehensile Feet, and chased a boisterous company of apes-turned-highwaymen from the Regretful Tomb Way all the way across the river Snat.
GANDOLO OF THE WATCHFUL EYE • by Bill Ward
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They were harridans, engaged in a harangue of hermeneutics, harpooning his hyperbolic sense of hagiocracy, calling him a haggard hooligan hamming up a heedless hegemonic hullabaloo.
Martin Marks: Bushenschadenfreude: Where has it all Gone?
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She could not become the shrill edgy hurried harridan the war had tried to make her while his square, leisurely, beflowered, inscrutable figure passed daily up and down between those pale considerable buildings.
Maid in Waiting