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Definition of Shrewish
1. Adjective. Continually complaining or faultfinding. "Nagging parents"
Definition of Shrewish
1. a. having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish.
Definition of Shrewish
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a shrew, a nagging, ill-tempered woman. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shrewish
1. ill-tempered [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrewish
Literary usage of Shrewish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Daniel Defoe: His Life, and Recently Discovered Writings ; Extending from by Lee, William, Daniel Defoe (1869)
"A shrewish Wife. MJ, May 28.—Mr. Mist, I am confident you have not a more sincere
Well-wisher than I, yet you are so unkind as to make ine the only object ..."
2. Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings: His Life and by Daniel Defoe, William Lee (1869)
"A shrewish Wife. MJ, May 28.—Mr. Mist, I am confident you have not a more sincere
Well-wisher than I, yet you are so unkind as to make me the only object of ..."
3. The Cloister and the Hearth: Or, Maid, Wife, and Widow; a Matter-of-fact Romance by Charles Reade (1861)
"... and one so low as I.' ' Gerar-do, for no good reason, but because am wayward,
and shrewish, and curst, and because everybody admires me but you. ..."
4. The Fireside Encyclopædia of Poetry: Comprising the Best Poems of the Most by Henry Troth Coates (1878)
"... Falser than all fancy fathoms, falser than all songs have sung, Puppet to a
father's threat, and servile to a shrewish tongue! ..."
5. Birmingham Medical Review (1887)
"The non-shrewish man is emphatically not a scold, but in the main we have to ...
The next chapter describes the anatomy of shrewish and non-shrewish persons ..."
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