Definition of Shrewish

Shrew´ish
a.1.having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish.
My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours.
- Shak.


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aggressive, bellicose, belligerent, beyond control, bickering, breachy, catty, combative, contumacious, defiant, disputatious, divisive, eristic, factional, factious, fractious, fretful, incorrigible, indocile, indomitable, insuppressible, intractable, irascible, irrepressible, irritable, litigious, nagging, naggy, obstreperous, out of hand, partisan, peevish, pettish, petulant, polarizing, polemic, pugnacious, quarrelsome, querulous, recalcitrant, refractory, resentful, resistant, resisting, restive, unbiddable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmoldable, unruly, unsubmissive, vixenish, vixenly, wild, wrangling


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