How To Use Shrewish In A Sentence
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Being nasty, rude, shrewish and creepy was very fun to do - I simply pretended to be in a bad mood each time the camera rolled.
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Never in a million years would I become that shrewish fishwife shrieking from the doorway because my husband had spent the night carousing with the boys in avoidance of his husbandly duties.
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It was the one thing he feared about her — that pain and disappointment had made her bitter, shrewish.
Heart vs. Head
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She feared that her husband's disciples would represent her as another Xanthippe, the shrewish wife of Socrates.
The Searcher
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a shrewish wife
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Dear Lydia, you can consider yourself honored at least to be the opposite of a shrewish man hater of which there is no shortage.
The Pink Dress
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Do they not sometimes get called waspish and shrewish by virtue of their very chastity?
Plutarch's Morals
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Most of the main characters are emotionally balked men who hide from their exasperated, shrewish wives by throwing themselves into their work and who are given to as in one story "building tall towers of self-pity and then watching them sway.
Strained Separations
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The shrewish Katharina gives her final speech of submission out of real love for Petruchio, apparently because she realizes he's as mixed up as she is.
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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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In the meantime, you should also read the column by Ann Coulter, a somewhat shrewish looking woman of modest talent (going on her three columns so far) sometimes known as the darling of the right.
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But these days, bravado in men on screen plays chauvinistic and strength boorish, where for women, good sense is written as shrewish and vulnerability weak.
Emily Bracken: Romantic Comedies Are Dying Because Romance Is Dead
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He calls her "shrewish", "looking (and failing, evidently) to find someone or something in
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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As the years pass, the generation of grandchildren grows up to face its own difficulties – a hated boarding school, the uncertainty about a lost father, a sad, shrewish mother.
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Colonel Tigh is an angry bitter drunk, and Ellen is his shrewish and manipulative ex-wife.
MIND MELD: If We Ran Battlestar Galactica
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Being nasty, rude, shrewish and creepy was very fun to do - I simply pretended to be in a bad mood each time the camera rolled.
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She'd turned into a shrewish, nagging fishwife who carried five sets of clothes around for her kids should they happen to get dirty.
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The commercial with the couple was, for me, a shrewish wife making her husband go on a diet.
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The boys tended to make the men peevish and sarcastic, the girls made Emma brittle and shrewish.
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He intends to woo her perfectly, by telling her how lovely she is, when she looks shrewish, how beautifully she plays, when she makes horrid noises, and more.
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The old fisherman was cursed by his shrewish wife.
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In Norway, for example, when Gro Harlem Brundtland became prime minister in 1981, she had to endure some of the same sexist scrutnisation which Hillary is currently facing (i.e. the woman is a "witch or a bitch", and has a "bad temper" and tends to sound "shrewish" when "agitated").
Video: Tensions Finally Boil Over Between Hillary And Obama
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Hillary also won over my skeptical staff at the US embassy, many of whom had read the negative US press about her and expected that she would be a kind of shrewish Dragon Lady.
Derek Shearer: Hillary As An Agent of Change
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Her voice sounded shrewish to her own ears.