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The mezzo-soprano Lacey Jo Benter offered a chuckle-inducing portrayal of the shrewishly selfish Zita.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2011

"What are you doing," she had called shrewishly, "looking for your fortune?"

From Time Magazine Archive

Marie's voice rose shrewishly, riding the high waves of the baby's incessant outcry against the restrictions upon appetite imposed by enlightened motherhood.

From Cabin Fever by Bower, B. M.

And, because her nerves were drawn taut until they were ready to snap, Sidney turned on him shrewishly.

From K by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

That," said the good wife shrewishly, turning her eyes scorningly across her nose, "is not good asking at a change-house.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)