virago
Example Sentences
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It was someone laying down the law — without worrying that a man would label her a virago or harridan or termagant.
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2019
Yet, tellingly, this virago is also the creation of a male writer-director.
From The Guardian • Jan. 11, 2018
“HLN’s virago of vengeance,” the New York Times dubbed her in 2011.
From Slate • Oct. 13, 2016
“Jackson is an awesome virago who delivers her lines like bayonet thrusts,” Time magazine drama critic T.E.
From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2016
There, a tumbled heap, lay Mrs. Macfarlane, no longer a defiant virago, but a weak, sickly, elderly woman, partly supported on Joe Kelly’s knee, her face ghastly pale, her arms hanging limp.
From Humours of Irish Life by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.