Traductions de „shrewish“ dans le dictionnaire anglais » allemand

shrew·ish [ˈʃru:ɪʃ] ADJ péj

shrewish

zänkisch péj

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However, she is shrewish and ill-tempered, and no man desires to marry her.

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She is a sharp, slightly shrewish woman who keeps her staff of two in order.

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She is also cruel and self-serving, with a shrewish temperament.

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Husband tames shrewish wife by degradation, starvation and isolation.

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He sets about this reluctantly, under pressure from his shrewish and domineering wife.

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His wife appears to have been shrewish, as well as abusive to their household servants in his absence.

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She was a shrewish and conspiratorial gossip, a cleaning lady who often had her hair in curlers.

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It concerns the trials and tribulations of a grocery store owner as he battles a shrewish wife, an incompetent assistant, and assorted annoying children, customers, and salesmen.

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Not simply condoning his mischief but actively coercing him into it, she's the refreshing polar opposite of the shrewish-wife archetype.

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At her most shrewish, she hits, she spits, she makes rude hand gestures.

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