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Recent Examples of harridan Given its plotting, Brooks’s movie could easily have made Iris into a harridan and Isaac into a sociopathic rogue. Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 15 Aug. 2025 As written, and as played quite winningly by Siff, Silverman’s Tekla is neither a kitten nor a harridan. Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 May 2025 And Day, with a face of expressive misery and the energy of an imploding firecracker, portrays her as a shrewd fusion of harridan and victim. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024 The subtext throughout is that Tendler is a harridan, a domineering scold. Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024 Richard Millet became a kind of referendum on what wasn’t yet termed cancel culture, with Ernaux denounced as a harridan intent on enforcing politically correct censorship at the expense of a man’s career. Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022 Throughout her tenure as House speaker, Pelosi has been painted by Trump supporters as an unhinged harridan: crazy, conniving and hungry for power. Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2022 Allen’s account paints Mia Farrow as an abusive, baby-crazed harridan who beat and brainwashed her many children. Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2020
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shrew
Noun
  • The shrew is one of these mammals, according to the study.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The elephant shrew genus Macroscelides was the sole exception, shifting to omnivory after adopting myrmecophagy during the Eocene.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, ArsTechnica, 20 Aug. 2025

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“Harridan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harridan. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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