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

The reception that we experienced at the hands of the virago who owned this comfortless hovel, had been neither hospitable nor flattering.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis