harridan

Example Sentences

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More crucially, the play deals with Tanner’s fraught relationship with the queen of this company, Diana Gibson, here renamed Monica and played by Jenny O'Hara with fierce harridan humor.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2022

Still, for a generation brought up to smile in the face of almost any affront or risk being tarred as a harridan, older women’s indignation seems ripe for reassessment.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2019

The worst bits of Bob Honey are those involving the character’s ex-wife, a harridan called Helen, about whom he is so vicious, I had wondered whether Penn’s own ex-wife might have commented on it.

From The Guardian • May 5, 2018

And there’s no denying the subversive frisson inspired by watching actresses go full harridan, especially when it comes to traditional ideas about female agency and the approving male gaze.

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2018

"They call me Mistress Semele," said the harridan.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman