shrewish

1 The finale is especially cruel to Hammond’s shrewish but devoted “cougar” Selene — whose high-tech revenge is not so sweet.

2 A woman regarded as disreputable or shrewish.

被认为是不名誉的或泼辣的女人.

3 It was quite dreadful to me to speak to him, and yet he took it as though I were out of temper, and merely shrewish.”

4 I must say that I really enjoyed making myself shrewish, sparkling, and audacious.

5 Alberto slammed the door in his son’s face; his shrewish girlfriend called the police.

6 A shrewish voice rose in the darkness before him, and other voices, angry, clamant, protesting, struck in.

7 Nought that I know of, save it be her shrewish temper.

8 The air is keen and shrewish, and as to the sea, I am satisfied with a bath of less dimensions.

9 McCarthy goes nicely pianissimo for a change, playing it fretful rather than shrewish.

10 Fortunately, the coarse rating which she had prepared, and from which neither policy nor mercy could have persuaded her to refrain, died on her shrewish lips at the word "brother."

11 His shrewish, uptight bully of a wife, Lyn, is somewhat unsympathetic.

12 Still with "great cost, loss of time, confusion, and sorrow," he persevered, the wife growing more shrewish, the children more pinched and haggard.

13 Looking into Carpets, she found the shrewish wife of an old farmer raging and nagging at everybody, because she could not satisfy herself with what was being offered to her.

14 And on that occasion— “Smith!” screamed the shrewish voice from the telescreen.

15 Here, things start off pretty much as the Bard intended — a beautiful young lady, Bianca, is courted from three directions, but can't be married off until her older, infamously shrewish sister, Katherine, finds a mate.

16 She brushed his arm aside, only to discover that the overthrown woman had regained her feet, and now stood watching her partner in shrewish fury as, grinning foolishly, he scrambled up.

17 Once the papers are signed, the innocent bride becomes a bullying, shrewish spendthrift, a transition that is nicely handled by Ms. Buratto.

18 A woman fights back when her fiance’s shrewish mother tries to destroy their relationship.

19 The beach, I saw, had been badly gullied by the late storm, but the sea, like some shrewish housewife, after exhausting its rage, had set about putting things to rights again.

20 Costa-Jackson goes for a broadly comic and oddly shrewish Musetta, setting aside charm and seductiveness in a role that is set up to walk off with the show in her pocket and often does.

1 脾气暴躁

short irascible waspish have a quick temper

2 唠叨

verbose wordy crotchety snappish wordily snap verbosity babbling blatter termagancy rabbit jaw chatter yap maunder blither babble

3 爱骂街的

shrewd

4 刻薄

mean quick sharp cutting brisk sarcastic caustic scathing vinegarish sarky sharp-fanged mordacious mordacity vinegar sting acrimony mordancy hard crabbed abusive sharpness gall poignancy asperity acerbity causticity

5 唠叨的

verbose wordy crotchety snappish

6 脾气暴躁的

spunky fire-eating unamiable irascible waspish

7 泼辣的

termagant vixenish

8 脾气坏的

moody grumpy bearish cranky feisty surly sullen bitchy fractious morose cantankerous crotchety stroppy bad-tempered ill-natured shirty splenetic liverish out of sorts

9 爱骂人的

scolding snappish

10 刻薄的

mean quick sharp cutting brisk sarcastic caustic scathing vinegarish sarky sharp-fanged mordacious hard crabbed