shrewishness
- a word derived from shrewish.
Example Sentences
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Parthenia's shrewishness only hastens their marriage, in a sleepy village church.
From Time Magazine Archive
No sooner is the marriage contract signed than Norina, acting upon her instructions, launches forth upon a career of unexampled shrewishness, extravagance, and flirtation.
From The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. by Fuller-Maitland, J. A.
For the first time in their relationship he observed and deplored the taint of vulgarity, of shrewishness, in her manner.
From Scaramouche by Sabatini, Rafael
In her shrewishness she took such little heed that she tripped over a beam on the bridge, and down she went plump into the stream.
From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.
She was compounding in a cup a store of various liquids, which she said did cure shrewishness, and said she would pour some into her nurse's night-draught, to mend her of that disorder.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
