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What is the adjective for shrewishness?

What's the adjective for shrewishness? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb shrew which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

shrewlike
  1. Resembling a shrew (mouselike mammal) or some aspect of one.
  2. Resembling a shrew (ill-tempered woman) or some aspect of one; shrewish.
shrewish
  1. Of or pertaining to a shrew (a nagging, ill-tempered woman).
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He is married to a shrewish wife who spends her days in curlers and her nights prostrate in their trashy home.”
      “He is married to a shrewish wife who spends her days in curlers and her nights prostrate in their trashy trailer home.”
      “The boys tended to make the men peevish and sarcastic, the girls made Emma brittle and shrewish.”
shrewing
  1. present participle of shrew
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