shrewish

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: shrew=ish

CIDE DICTIONARY

shrewish, a. 

 having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish.  [1913 Webster]
"My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

shrewish

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

ROGET THESAURUS

shrewish

Irascibility

N irascibility, irascibleness, temper, crossness, susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity, pugnacity, excitability, bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable, temper, genus irritabile, hot blood, ill humor, asperity, churlishness, huff, a word and a blow, Sir Fretful Plagiary, brabbler, Tartar, shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe, porcupine, spitfire, fire eater, fury, irascible, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, irritable, susceptible, excitable, thin-skinned, fretful, fidgety, on the fret, hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy, like touchwood, like tinder, huffy, pettish, petulant, waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, sudden and quick in quarrel, querulous, captious, moodish, quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious, pugnacious, cantankerous, exceptious, restiff, churlish, cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs, fractious, peevish, acari=atre, in a bad temper, sulky, angry, resentful, resentive, vindictive, Int, pish!, a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes, quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor, vino tortus et ira.