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Definition of Shrewishness
1. Noun. A nature given to nagging or scolding.
Definition of Shrewishness
1. Noun. The quality of being shrewish. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shrewishness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrewishness
Literary usage of Shrewishness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1853)
"The argument that shrewishness spoils a young lady's looks, and ought therefore
to be avoided, ... shrewishness ..."
2. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"... shrewishness spoils a young lady's looks, and ought therefore to be avoided,
coming as it does from a little fellow of twelve to a girl about his own ..."
3. The Metropolitan (1847)
"... great acerbity and shrewishness of disposition, and manifold powers of
aggravating her personal friends and neighbours, by aid of the said shrewishness, ..."
4. Shakespeare on the Stage. 2d Series by William Winter (1915)
"This subject of feminine shrewishness, the disorder being in fact a malady, cannot
be deemed agreeable, and it would be offensive on the stage, if seriously ..."
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