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Shrewishness

noun
1.
A nature given to nagging or scolding.





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"Shrewishness" Quotes from Famous Books



... you, though you mock me, gentlemen, Let her not hurt me. I was never curst; I have no gift at all in shrewishness; I am a right maid for my cowardice; Let her not strike me. You perhaps may think, Because she is something lower than myself, ...
— A Midsummer Night's Dream • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]
... the nuptial hut, the bridegroom draws forth his horsewhip and inflicts memorable chastisement upon the fair person of his bride, with the view of taming any lurking propensity to shrewishness." ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck


Words linked to "Shrewishness" :   shrewish, ill nature


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