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
Her eldest son, Alec, returns home with his termagant wife when their house collapses.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 26, 2010
The outsized termagant is voiced here, as she was in the rather dull 2002 Broadway revival of the musical, by Judi Dench, in full, booming form.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2010
Her father, pompous enough outside, was as wax in the hands of his termagant second wife, and, though his sympathies were secretly with the girl, he never dared protect her.
From Young Wallingford by George Randolph Chester
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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Spoon River Anthology
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