Usually means: Excessive nagging, scolding, and irritability.
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  1. shrewishness: Merriam-Webster
  2. shrewishness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shrewishness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shrewishness: Vocabulary.com
  5. shrewishness: Wordnik
  6. shrewishness: Wiktionary
  7. shrewishness: Dictionary.com
  8. shrewishness: Rhymezone
  9. shrewishness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. shrewishness: FreeDictionary.org
  11. shrewishness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. shrewishness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. shrewishness: Medical dictionary

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noun:  The quality of being shrewish.

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