shrewish

How To Use shrewish In A Sentence

• He calls her "shrewish", "looking (and failing, evidently) to find someone or something in ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
• Her voice sounded shrewish to her own ears.
• Hillary also won over my skeptical staff at the US embassy, many of whom had read the negative US press about her and expected that she would be a kind of shrewish Dragon Lady. Derek Shearer: Hillary As An Agent of Change
• In Norway, for example, when Gro Harlem Brundtland became prime minister in 1981, she had to endure some of the same sexist scrutnisation which Hillary is currently facing (i.e. the woman is a "witch or a bitch", and has a "bad temper" and tends to sound "shrewish" when "agitated"). Video: Tensions Finally Boil Over Between Hillary And Obama
• The old fisherman was cursed by his shrewish wife.
• He intends to woo her perfectly, by telling her how lovely she is, when she looks shrewish, how beautifully she plays, when she makes horrid noises, and more.
• The boys tended to make the men peevish and sarcastic, the girls made Emma brittle and shrewish.
• The commercial with the couple was, for me, a shrewish wife making her husband go on a diet.
• She'd turned into a shrewish, nagging fishwife who carried five sets of clothes around for her kids should they happen to get dirty.
• Being nasty, rude, shrewish and creepy was very fun to do - I simply pretended to be in a bad mood each time the camera rolled.