Crossword-Solution: SHREWS
We have 13 clues for the answer “SHREWS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Chronic nags | 1 answer |
| Diminutive animals. | 1 answer |
| Harsh women | 1 answer |
| Mammals using echolocation | 1 answer |
| Mole-like mammals | 1 answer |
| Mouselike mammals | 1 answer |
| Nagging, bad-tempered women | 1 answer |
| Soricines | 1 answer |
| They have sharp tongues | 1 answer |
| Xanthippes. | 2 answers |
| Burrowing animals | 5 answers |
| Nags | 14 answers |
| Scolds | 14 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SHREWS (5)
Jordan, has divided the human race into two types, whom he calls “shrews” and “non‐shrews” respectively.(205) The shrew‐type is defined as possessing an “active unimpassioned temperament.” In other words, shrews are the “motors,” rather than the “sensories,”(206) and their expressions are as a rule more energetic than the feelings which appear to prompt them.
Shrill underfoot the grassblade shrews, At gallop, clumped, and down the croft Bestrid by shadows, beaten, tossed; It seems a scythe, it seems a rod.
Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal popularity; for those men are apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
Now see we well, that the science and conning [knowledge] of Solomon is full true; for he saith, that sweet words multiply and increase friends, and make shrews [the ill-natured or angry] to be debonair [gentle, courteous] and meek.
This made the third species of marsupial rat I had so far obtained: but the number of these animals is very considerable in Brazil, where they take the place of the shrews of Europe; shrew mice and, indeed, the whole of the insectivorous order of mammals, being entirely absent from Tropical America.
Quotes with SHREWS (2)
I mean the women who, without any of the prerogatives of youth and beauty, demand continual slavery from their men.... They sit back complacently and watch their husbands slave for them; and, without furnishing any of the pleasantries of life for their husbands, they demand the sort of continual attention that a charming fiancée might get.... They are harridans and shrews who continually nag and scold until the men are driven idiotic.
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 19 times in crossword archives (1942–2017).