shrewish
adjective
having the disposition of a shrew.
shrewishness
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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
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 William Tuckwell
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 Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
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 Monica Stevens
She was young and lithe and strong; stronger than the women whom she permitted to badger her with incessant shrewishness.
From The Code of the Mountains by Charles Neville Buck
