shrewish

• I don't think any viable expression should be censored, though that conviction was strained while listening to an audience of besotted women oohing when [spoiler] Ben Affleck breaks down and buys a wedding ring for a shrewish, nagging and grotesquely needy Jennifer Aniston. —  Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
• She's shrill, shrewish, bossy, brassy - you know, all those adjectives that are sexist if you apply them to Hillary Clinton, but brilliantly insightful if used against Sarah Palin. —  Latest Articles
• She also had a memorable turn as a shrewish mother-in-law in —  Rick Sincere News and Thoughts
• A husband may divorce his wife for failing to bear him issue, for being ugly, thievish, shrewish or a witch, or for an intrigue with another man. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
• His wife, a thin, pale, shrewish-looking woman, was warming her child's feet at the fire, before putting him to bed, and an old woman sat spinning and nodding on a settle at a little distance Brother," said Stephen, "we have thought on what you said. —  The Armourer's Prentices

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