shrewish in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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However, she is shrewish and ill-tempered, and no man desires to marry her.
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Male politicians are engaging in sneaky, catty, weepy, ditzy, shrewish behaviour that is anything but reasonable and impersonal.
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Dirty old men, conniving slaves, clueless lovers and shrewish wives.
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She is also cruel and self-serving, with a shrewish temperament.
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She was a shrewish and conspiratorial gossip, a cleaning lady who often had her hair in curlers.
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It concerns the trials and tribulations of a grocery store owner as he battles a shrewish wife, an incompetent assistant, and assorted annoying children, customers, and salesmen.
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Husband tames shrewish wife by degradation, starvation and isolation.
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She is a sharp, slightly shrewish woman who keeps her staff of two in order.
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His wife appears to have been shrewish, as well as abusive to their household servants in his absence.
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He sets about this reluctantly, under pressure from his shrewish and domineering wife.
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