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

Whoever feels her hand upon a wounded, quivering heart, knows that she is the benefactress, not the taskmistress of humanity.

From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von