shrewish in the PONS Dictionary

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Husband tames shrewish wife by degradation, starvation and isolation.
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At her most shrewish, she hits, she spits, she makes rude hand gestures.
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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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He sets about this reluctantly, under pressure from his shrewish and domineering wife.
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Dirty old men, conniving slaves, clueless lovers and shrewish wives.
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She is a sharp, slightly shrewish woman who keeps her staff of two in order.
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Not simply condoning his mischief but actively coercing him into it, she's the refreshing polar opposite of the shrewish-wife archetype.
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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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She is also cruel and self-serving, with a shrewish temperament.
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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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