Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a shrewish manner; with scolding or rating.

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  • adverb In a shrewish way.

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  • adverb in a shrewish manner

Etymologies

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shrewish +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • My heart swelled with admiration for his maturity, then contracted shrewishly as he gallantly opened the car door for Leonie.

    The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008

  • My heart swelled with admiration for his maturity, then contracted shrewishly as he gallantly opened the car door for Leonie.

    The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008

  • My heart swelled with admiration for his maturity, then contracted shrewishly as he gallantly opened the car door for Leonie.

    The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008

  • She apparently just called into "Hardball" to confront the shrewishly shrewd Ann Coulter for her personal attacks.

    Elizabeth Edwards Calls Into Hardball, Confronts Coulter - Swampland - TIME.com 2007

  • What binds it together is ultimately stronger than the misadventures of its members, the most spectacular of which is Michelle's farcical arrest for "molesting" Jordan, a minor, especially in his mother's shrewishly suspicious eyes.

    A Satirical Leap Out Of The Chick-Flick Ghetto 2002

  • Termagant was talking most shrewishly with my factory at New Sestros.

    Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

  • Marvellous it was to see him do this; springing from place to place, and changing his whole aspect in a flash -- now scolding shrewishly in the words of Violet Hartman, now discoursing, with the accent and manner of Prof, von Arne, upon the _psychopathia_ _sexualis_ of Genius.

    Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

  • "That's it," I cried shrewishly, with my back against the door.

    When a Man Marries Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • "I won't tell you his name, either," Edith added, shrewishly.

    A Poor Wise Man Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • And, because her nerves were drawn taut until they were ready to snap, Sidney turned on him shrewishly.

    K Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

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