common scold
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of common scold
First recorded in 1760–70
Example Sentences
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Casting was geared to turn a prostitute into an angel, to repolish a yaking common scold, or curve hard lips into "the kindly weak smiles of a deserving claimant."
From Time Magazine Archive
"He is not to be a common scold," he wrote in an opinion reprinted recently in the Atlantic.
From Time Magazine Archive
With a loud roar of rage, the felicity of phrasing and invaluable candor of a common scold, he immediately started to set things to rights.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, as always, Khrushchev on tour turned out to be part frolicking peasant, part common scold.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have tried not to be a common scold and avoided being vicious when I could.
From Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Thomas William Lawson
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