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shrewish
aggressive, breachy, disputatious, fractious, insuppressible, litigious, partisan, polemic, refractory, unbiddable, unmoldable, wild
Definition
adj.
continually complaining or faultfinding
Last update: July 16, 2015
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Just now, a coating of lather covered his
shrewish
underjaw.
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She paused to take breath, and to look with
shrewish
triumph at the girl who leaned against the wall.
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"She is growing old, Tsamanni--old and lean and
shrewish
, and no fit mate for a Member of the Prophet's House."
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She was a small old woman, with a
shrewish
face, a waxen complexion, and a brown wig.
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She ruled them all with her temper and her
shrewish
will.
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Peter Blewett only by sight as a small,
shrewish
-faced woman without an ounce of superfluous flesh on her bones.
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