Crossword-Solution: SHREW 5 letters, 138 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
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.

We have 138 clues for the answer “SHREW”

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"The Taming of the __" 1 answer
Animal in a Shakespearean title 1 answer
Anne Jeffreys' role. 1 answer
Baptista's elder daughter. 1 answer
Bard's Kate e.g. 1 answer
Bug-eating burrower 1 answer
Constant nag 1 answer
Constant needler 1 answer
Cousin of a mole 1 answer
Creature for taming? 1 answer
Elephant ___ (fleet-footed insectivore) 1 answer
Headstrong woman, as in Shakespeare 1 answer
Hedgehog relative 1 answer
Henpecking hag 1 answer
Kate at first 1 answer
Kate of "Kiss Me, Kate," e.g. 1 answer
Kate, before Petruchio's "taming" 1 answer
Kate, before being "tamed" 1 answer
Kate, in a play 1 answer
Kate, notably 1 answer
Kate, pre-taming 1 answer
Kate, until Act V 1 answer
Katharina 1 answer
Katharina from Padua. 1 answer
Katharina of Padua. 1 answer
Katherina, in a Shakespeare title 1 answer
Mammal in the Soricidae family 1 answer
Mammal with a pointed snout 1 answer
Mole kin 1 answer
Mole relative 1 answer
Mole's cousin 1 answer
Molelike animal 1 answer
Mouse like animal 1 answer
Mouselike animal that's not a rodent 1 answer
Mouselike insectivore 1 answer
Nagging sort 1 answer
Nagging woman 1 answer
Naggish one. 1 answer
Nocturnal insectivore 1 answer
One "tamed" in Shakespeare 1 answer
Petruchio's Kate, e.g. 1 answer
Petruchio's Katherina 1 answer
Petruchio's challenge 1 answer
Petruchio's problem 1 answer
Problem for Petruchio 1 answer
Scolding woman 1 answer
Shakespeare's "Taming of the ___" 1 answer
Shakespeare's "The Taming of the __" 1 answer
Shakespeare's Kate 1 answer
Shakespeare's Kate for one 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
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AND STILL ___
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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.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
There was a woman called Thordis--and a shrew she was--who lived at Spakonufell (Spaequean's-fell), in Skagastrand.
The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald Unknown 2008
The posada was one of the most wretched description, and to mend the matter, the hostess was a most intolerable scold and shrew.
The Bible in Spain George Borrow 1995
Bella Westerveld, after one of those letters, was more than a chronic shrew; she became a terrible termagant.
One Basket Edna Ferber 1996
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.
The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett 2006

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.
Ogden Nash
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.
Mildred D. Taylor Let the Circle Be Unbroken
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.
L. M. Montgomery
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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).