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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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Termagant was talking most shrewishly with my factory at New Sestros.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot
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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
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"That's it," I cried shrewishly, with my back against the door.
When a Man Marries Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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"I won't tell you his name, either," Edith added, shrewishly.
A Poor Wise Man Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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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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