Bitter
Shrewish
Shrewish adjective - Continually complaining or faultfinding.
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Bitter and shrewish are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bitter" instead an adjective "Shrewish".
Nearby Word: shrew
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- Lady Edith after she Took a Level in Kindness: In Series 1, she is a bitter, shrewish young woman who envies her more beautiful and popular sisters.
Source: Spirited Young Lady - One of the characters, Flora Gallant, is a fat, shrewish, bitter, ugly, crude middle-aged female social misfit - virtually a perfect example of the trope played straight.
- Eleanor Prentice is a passive-aggressive, sex-hating, shrewish, bitter harpy who literally cannot control herself when she hears the ringing of church bells and is driven to madness by the possibility that she might miss Sunday service.
Source: Creator / Ngaio Marsh
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