taskmistress

Example Sentences

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In the sweeping Scottish Highlands, Claudia Winkleman has played taskmistress for three weeks over an ever-shrinking band of players stationed at Ardross Castle.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2022

This description probably makes Ho sound like a taskmistress – an approachable one, but a drill coach more than the life coach that she is.

From Salon • Nov. 24, 2022

Uncle Clifford is a taskmistress, but she minds her dancers less in the way of a madam than a mother hen.

From Salon • Jun. 20, 2022

Ivana Trump was an immigrant from communist Czechoslovakia and a taskmistress who would not brook dissent.

From Time • Nov. 29, 2

Spurn the hand of thy wicked mistress, and flee hastily from thy cruel taskmistress, that thou mayst go back with me to the ships of thy friends and live in freedom.

From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Saxo, Grammaticus