Crossword-Solution: SHREW
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shrew | a. | Wicked; malicious. |
| Shrew | a. | Originally, a brawling, turbulent, vexatious person of either sex, but now restricted in use to females; a brawler; a scold. |
| Shrew | a. | Any small insectivore of the genus Sorex and several allied genera of the family Sorecidae. In form and color they resemble mice, but they have a longer and more pointed nose. Some of them are the smallest of all mammals. |
| Shrew | a. | To beshrew; to curse. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SHREW (5)
Would you have had me a woman of clay when you paid me that furthest, highest compliment a man can pay a woman—telling her he loves her? I was bound to show some feeling, if I would not be a graceless shrew.
There was a woman called Thordis--and a shrew she was--who lived at Spakonufell (Spaequean's-fell), in Skagastrand.
The posada was one of the most wretched description, and to mend the matter, the hostess was a most intolerable scold and shrew.
Bella Westerveld, after one of those letters, was more than a chronic shrew; she became a terrible termagant.
Ffolliott to understand that I had married him because I thought he was grand and rich, and that I was a disappointed little spiteful shrew.
Quotes with SHREW (3)
Which the Chicken and Which the Egg? He drinks because she scolds, he thinks; She thinks she scolds because he drinks; And nether will admit what's true, That he's a sot and she's a shrew.
Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, but as in everything else, Christopher John tried to see the bright side in having to face such a shrew every morning. "Maybe she done changed," he said hopefully on the first day of school. However, when classes were over he was noticeably quiet. Well?" I asked him. He shrugged dejectedly and admitted, "She still the same.
I hear the Wind Woman running with soft, soft footsteps over the hill. I shall always think of the wind as a personality. She is a shrew when she blows from the north -- a lonely seeker when she blows from the east -- a laughing girl when she comes from the west -- and tonight from the south a little grey fairy.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 134 times in crossword archives (1950–2024).