common scold
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of common scold
First recorded in 1760–70
Example Sentences
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What transformed old faithful into a common scold was a series of federal safety regulations.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 envisions himself as a kind of public conscience to the profession, and succeeds at least in being its common scold.
From Time Magazine Archive
Catherine Cairns was arrested as a common scold, clapped in jail to mend her talk.
From Time Magazine Archive
At home she might make herself a common scold, might be pestiferously officious and more than pestiferously noisy.
From From Place to Place by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
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