shrewishness

IPA: ʃrˈuɪʃnʌs

Examples of "shrewishness" in Sentences

My grounds are these: shrewishness, old age, bad manners, incompatibility, and extravagance.
" The woman screamed after him, her voice an odd mixture of fear and shrewishness, "Sheb, you come back here!
As soon as the words left her mouth she heard their shrewishness and would have called them back if she could.
And he suspected that her nature tended toward shrewishness, which he, as a soldier who despised any pettishness, personally disliked.
On first entering the nuptial hut the bridegroom draws forth his horsewhip and inflicts chastisement upon his bride, with the view of taming any lurking propensity to shrewishness.
After Kitty Kelley's bio accused Nancy Reagan of greed, shrewishness and adultery with Frank Sinatra, Sinatra said he hoped Kelley walked in the path of "blind guys ... driving cars."
On first entering the nuptial hut, the bridegroom draws forth his horsewhip and inflicts memorable chastisement upon the fair person of his bride, with the view of taming any lurking propensity to shrewishness. 23 This is carrying out with a will the Arab proverb,