[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

shrewish \shrew"ish\, a.
   having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding
   disposition; froward; peevish.
   1913 webster

         my wife is shrewish when i keep not hours. --shak.
   1913 webster -- shrew"ishly, adv. -- shrew"ishness,
   n.
   1913 webster
see also:
shrew"ishly shrew"ishness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

shrewish
     adj : continually complaining or faultfinding; "a shrewish wife";
           "nagging parents" syn: nagging
see also:
nagging 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

57 moby thesaurus words for "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

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