shrewish

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

shrewish
    adj 1: continually complaining or faultfinding; "a shrewish
           wife"; "nagging parents" [syn: {shrewish}, {nagging}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Shrewish \Shrew"ish\, a.
   having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding
   disposition; froward; peevish.
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         My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours. --Shak.
   [1913 Webster] -- {Shrew"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Shrew"ish*ness},
   n.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

57 Moby Thesaurus words for "shrewish":
      aggressive, bellicose, belligerent, beyond control, bickering,
      breachy, catty, combative, contumacious, defiant, disputatious,
      divisive, eristic, factional, factious, fractious, fretful,
      incorrigible, indocile, indomitable, insuppressible, intractable,
      irascible, irrepressible, irritable, litigious, nagging, naggy,
      obstreperous, out of hand, partisan, peevish, pettish, petulant,
      polarizing, polemic, pugnacious, quarrelsome, querulous,
      recalcitrant, refractory, resentful, resistant, resisting, restive,
      unbiddable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmalleable,
      unmanageable, unmoldable, unruly, unsubmissive, vixenish, vixenly,
      wild, wrangling