Termagant synonyms

tûr'mə-gənt

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harridan
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shrew
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quarrelsome
The definition of quarrelsome is someone who is prone to getting into arguments or fights.
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fishwife
(Geordie, pejorative) Term of abuse, usually directed at women, implying lack of personal hygiene.
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scolding
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virago
Pertaining to a virago
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xanthippe
The wife of Socrates, traditionally described as shrewish and scolding.
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fury
Violent anger; rage.
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harpy
A relentless, greedy, or grasping person
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battle-ax
Alternative spelling of battle-ax.
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hellcat
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scold
(Obsolete) A person fond of abusive language, in particular a troublesome and angry woman.
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vixen
A female fox.
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furious
Very great; intense
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disorderly
Not orderly; untidy; unsystematic
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raucous
Rough-sounding and harsh:
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tumultuous
Characterized by disorderly commotion:
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turbulent
Moving rapidly or violently:
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praise (related)
(Archaic) A reason or basis for praise
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limitable
Able to be limited.
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Termagant Sentence Examples

  • In incidental allusions he lets us know that he had been engaged in trade, that his wife was a termagant, and that his children were ill brought up. Various views have been held as to the identity of the author.

  • From the heroine who is, in a phrase of Dryden's, "one of the coolest and most insignificant" heroines ever drawn, to the undignified Valens, the termagant Marcelle, and the peevish Placide, there is hardly a good character.

  • Wilfred Tomkinson (" Phoebe," North Star," Trident," Mansfield," Whirlwind," Myngs," Velox," Morris Moorsom Melpomene, "Tempest" and "Tetrarch" to escort the force and cover it to seaward; "Termagant," "Truculent" and "Manly" to screen the Zeebrugge monitors).

  • The queen found relief in the quiet and respectful demeanour of her attendant, and gradually came to prefer her society to that of the termagant and tempestuous duchess.

  • A little later she is called "a regular termagant" and in 1607 "not very beautiful."' In December k 1609 she planned an escape with Sir George Douglas to Scotland, apparently with a view of arranging a marriage with Stephen Bogdan, pretender to Moldavia, and on the scheme being discovered she was arrested.

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