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Перевод: shrewish

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Тезаурус:

1. She had few female friends, for most of her sex saw her as a threat and a shrewish one at that.
2. risk of sounding shrewish
3. Her anger grew and with it she became shrewish.
4. I confess I have never met any woman as shrewish or as critical as you!"
5. Orphaned at a very early age, he is brought up "by hand" by his shrewish sister, Mrs Joe, the wife of the village blacksmith, Joe Gargery, who loves him and protects him as far as possible from his sister's tyranny.
6. Go on, don't just sit there, tell me," she demanded, in a manner that later she condemned as shrewish.
7. She regarded the man for a while; the wiry frame and sharp shrewish expression, the startling white hair and eyes which, in a certain light, seemed more pink than brown.
8. He also contrived to marry several times, on one occasion to a shrewish wench who so exasperated him that he leapt upon her and gave her such a beating that she held her peace thereafter.
9. "I am not shrewish and critical!" she exclaimed indignantly, stiffening in his grasp.
10. Their decision to screen live matches regularly on Monday nights was greeted with a mixture of sour grapes and shrewish dismay.
11. "And, despite your shrewish tongue," he teased unevenly, "the most loveable"
12. But she heard herself saying, still in shrewish style, that on the contrary there wasn't any time in the morning, that she had to go to a psychoanalytical conference in the Metropole Hotel with a bunch of Japanese in the morning, that she wanted to talk now, that he couldn't just announce that he wanted to get divorced and then decide he was too tired to talk about it.
13. She was frowning, deep lines appearing between her eyebrows, mouth drawn down at the edges so that instead of a classically good-looking slim English Rose in her late twenties, she looked faded, years older than her real age, and shrewish.