| Shrewish (a.) having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish. Thesaurus Entries aggressive, bellicose, belligerent, beyond control, bickering, breachy, catty, combative, contumacious, defiant, disputatious, divisive, eristic, factional, factious, fractious, fretful, incorrigible, indocile, indomitable, insuppressible, intractable, irascible, irrepressible, irritable, litigious, nagging, naggy, obstreperous, out of hand, partisan, peevish, pettish, petulant, polarizing, polemic, pugnacious, quarrelsome, querulous, recalcitrant, refractory, resentful, resistant, resisting, restive, unbiddable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmoldable, unruly, unsubmissive, vixenish, vixenly, wild, wrangling |