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At least one of these women sounds like the aging harpie I dated back in the mid 1990s.
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Gemma Jones also makes Queen Margaret not some ranting harpie but a stern-faced necromancer who uses sticks and earth to put a curse on Richard and who turns up at Bosworth as his nemesis.
Richard III – review 2011
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These shows, and a host of others like them, have made it cool to be a judgmental, critical, and rude harpie, especially if your particular 'insights,' opinions, and commentary are delivered with biting sarcasm and personal disdain.
Lori Bryant Woolridge: Can We Get a Little Sister Love? Lori Bryant Woolridge 2011
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Angela, on the other hand, looked increasingly like a hysterical harpie whose full-time hobby was cultivating a vindictive streak (abusive emails a speciality), an impression that was not helped by the fact that she was physically unprepossessing, with poodle hair, a weak chin and far too many teeth in the wrong places, while pretty Sandra, with her tousled curls and dark soulful eyes, looked like the blueprint for the perfect wife.
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No more face time for this hillbilly harpie, please!
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Gemma Jones also makes Queen Margaret not some ranting harpie but a stern-faced necromancer who uses sticks and earth to put a curse on Richard and who turns up at Bosworth as his nemesis.
Richard III – review 2011
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I knew he was losing his marbles when he nominated that screeching harpie Palin as his running mate.
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I am the harpie you described — overly explaining to stylists that “I DO NOT want a military cut or business man cut — i just want you to trim the ends out of his eyes please.”
This Is The Way The World Ends, Not With A Bang, But A Haircut - Her Bad Mother 2010
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The woman is a walking, talking, shrill harpie nightmare.
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You know that screaming harpie upstairs who is effectively dumping you from the house?
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