Shrewish [adjective]
Definition of Shrewish:
evil-tempered
Opposite/Antonyms of Shrewish:
-
Sentence/Example of Shrewish:
But that same reseit, iff your Honner so please, to cure a shrewish wife.
Do they not sometimes get called waspish and shrewish by virtue of their very chastity?
Look at her—isn't it awfully good—just like a shrewish woman.
A lackey—That is Jeppe on the Hill, who has the shrewish wife.
He gets the hottest tea and the nicest morsels from the shrewish woman.
Puppet to a father's threat and servile to a mother's shrewish tongue.
Even the forewoman, who was thin-lipped and shrewish, seemed a little afraid of her.
Show her the curse of a shrewish temper, and the blessing of cheerfulness.
Just now, a coating of lather covered his shrewish underjaw.
An Adela would certainly have berated him in her shrewish, thin tones.