shrewish
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8.9
- adjective
- /ˈʃruːɪʃ/
- Slur
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- Her constant complaints about the noise made her seem shrewish to everyone in the office.
- shrewish woman
Examples
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In the family novel, Cassandra plays the part of a shrewish, child-hating, judgmental villain who cultivated a hypocritical religiosity.
Academic text (2017) -
My wife was a very shrewish woman.
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Someone shrewish too.
Fiction book (1995) -
Also, Ben could hear the white cockatoos with their squawking, shrewish screams at everything that disturbed them, even their own dreams.
Fiction book (1990) -
Beatrice tried to help her out and wished fervently that Frank would return to his hell of shrewish nurses.
Fiction book (1998) -
13 Lisa Jardine: "Shrewd or shrewish? When the disorderly woman has her head.
Fiction book (1991) -
Oh, and you created me as the shrewish Jewish hybrid who goes off with another patient, an orthodox divorcee from Tel Aviv.
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Baudelaire's contemporaries describe her variously as stupid, shrewish, and as a genuine tropical beauty.
Academic text (1997) -
The effeminate product of decadence and self-deceit, they are shrill and hysterical like only the most shrewish of harridans.
Blog text (29) -
They're doubtless grateful my spouse isn't a shrewish, unfucked woman who resents my time away from her with them, and in fact someone who genuinely cares about their comfort in their old age and actively contributes to it.
Blog text (15)
Synonyms
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8.5
Being bad-tempered and stubborn, often hard to deal with
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8.6
Gets angry easily and often argues with people
5
8.5
Rude and unkind in a way that upsets people
3
7.8
Likely to argue or fight with other people
3
9.5
Often bad-tempered and easily annoyed, like a grumpy older person
3
4.8
Acting childish and complaining a lot in an annoying way
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9.4
Often complaining in a whiny, unhappy way
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9.8
Easily annoyed and likely to argue or be unhelpful
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4.6
Always complaining in an irritating way
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9.9
Easily annoyed and quick to complain about small things
Often complaining in a way that annoys others
Acting mean and saying sharp words to hurt others
Antonyms
How Nagging
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word shrewish comes from shrew, a word once used for a 'nasty, quarrelsome person' and also the name of a 'small, mouse-like animal' thought to be sharp and quick. So, someone shrewish is always nagging or quick to complain.