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

It was all of red brick, and looked square and formal enough, with the two wings projecting like the a-kimbo arms of some untamed virago, straight and resolute as a redoubt.

From The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)