shrewish

The shrewish words were out before she could pull them back.

"And I'll thank you to keep your shrewish fears to yourself."

That night, he has another argument with his shrewish wife, Jane.

"Barbara grows a little more shrewish with each passing year."

She is a sharp, slightly shrewish woman who keeps her staff of two in order.

For the moment she looked simply like a very shrewish old spitfire.

Of course, if he's just running away from a shrewish wife then it's his affair, and we drop it.

Her voice had the shrewish tone it sometimes got.

Her anger grew and with it she became shrewish.

A manipulative, shrewish woman who is loathed by even her husband.

Her voice was that of a shrewish teacher lambasting two students for cheating when in fact they had not.

She is also cruel and self-serving, with a shrewish temperament.

Then she began to shiver in the cool shrewish wind of September darkness.

The doubt was joined by a faint tone of shrewish suspicion.

The Lieutenant protested in the peevish voice of a shrewish young wife.

Her voice was no longer upraised in the familiar shrewish accents.

I felt shrewish and berated myself for such unworthy thoughts.

And he has a shrewish mother living there.

But she uses these qualities to powerful effect in portraying this shrewish character.

The child is enslaved as a servant by her shrewish stepmother.

She bit her lip, hating the shrewish sound of her own voice.

There were worse things than a leering old man and a shrewish sister-in-law.

All he would have left would be a shrewish woman to sit on his double throne.