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Shrewish

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Ill-tempered; nagging.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of or pertaining to a shrew, a nagging, ill-tempered woman.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Having the qualities of a shrew; given to exhibitions of ill temper; vixenish: applied to women.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. continually complaining or faultfinding

Word Usage

"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")."

Equivalent

ill-natured

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

froward peevish ill-tempered

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

fault-finding soon-to-be froward ill-natured fractious