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
For in that she said she would cast away all her old shrewishness, therein I daresay she sported.
From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Stevens, Monica
My master looked at me with the shrewishness of an elephant.
From Lazarre by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell
In the presence of one man, Tennyson, she laid aside her shrewishness: “talking with Alfred Tennyson lifts me out of the earth earthy; a visit to Farringford is like a retreat to the religious.”
From Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake by Tuckwell, William
Indeed! indeed!" she said gently, "I do deserve your contempt, Sir, for my shrewishness and vixenish ways.
From The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
