Definition of "shrewish" []

• Ill-tempered; nagging. (adjective)

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• "In Norway, for example, when Gro Harlem Brundtland became prime minister in 1981, she had to endure some of the same sexist scrutnisation which Hillary is currently facing (i.e. the woman is a "witch or a bitch", and has a "bad temper" and tends to sound "shrewish" when "agitated")."
• "Hillary also won over my skeptical staff at the US embassy, many of whom had read the negative US press about her and expected that she would be a kind of shrewish Dragon Lady."
• "He calls her "shrewish", "looking (and failing, evidently) to find someone or something in"