termagant
Example Sentences
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As an astringent, tipsy termagant, she’s so hilarious, appalling and endearing that she could carry the production all by herself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2015
I appreciate this one because we so rarely hear what the groom ends up thinking when he watches his betrothed turn into a termagant.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2012
Valery Murga brings a solid bass voice to the barber arguably responsible for severing Kovalyov’s nose, and Liuba Chuchrova sings frighteningly as his termagant of a wife.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2011
Her eldest son, Alec, returns home with his termagant wife when their house collapses.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 26, 2010
She half rose as though she would have flown at him, but a glance from Pratt quelled her, and she sat down with more meekness than could have been expected from such a redoubtable termagant.
From The Pagan's Cup by Hume, Fergus
Vocabulary lists containing termagant
"The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving
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"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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