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Recent Examples of fishwife
In addition to Brecht’s typical didacticism, there is a haunting passage for a fishwife whose son died in one of Lucullus’s campaigns.
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Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020
An old fishwife sees a lobster try to escape and whacks it back in with her net.
—Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong, Time, 12 July 2018
The latest environmental measure that has people grumbling is a two-year ban on fishing for omul, a smoked delicacy hawked by fishwives all around the lake.
—Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2017
A Canadian waitress who swears like a fishwife goes on holiday to Boracay.
—Simon Winchester, New York Times, 1 June 2016
Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020
An old fishwife sees a lobster try to escape and whacks it back in with her net.
—Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong, Time, 12 July 2018
The latest environmental measure that has people grumbling is a two-year ban on fishing for omul, a smoked delicacy hawked by fishwives all around the lake.
—Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2017
A Canadian waitress who swears like a fishwife goes on holiday to Boracay.
—Simon Winchester, New York Times, 1 June 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fishwife
Noun
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The subtext throughout is that Tendler is a harridan, a domineering scold.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
16 Aug. 2024
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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
Noun
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The original premise follows Frankenstein’s monster teaming up with a werewolf, vampire and gorgon to fight Nazis in World War II.—
Selena Kuznikov,
Variety,
26 July 2024
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Those themes are evident in the salon decorated with giant nautilus shells, gorgons of the sea and other old nautical items.—
Chloe Braithwaite,
Robb Report,
25 Apr. 2024
Noun
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According to the Lincoln Park Zoo, northern tree shrews are most closely related to primates and have no relation to actual shrews other than a coincidental resemblance to them.—
Rhiannon Saegert,
Miami Herald,
20 Feb. 2025
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Here’s looking at shrew: How college students got first-ever photos of an elusive California mammal.—
Kevinisha Walker,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Feb. 2025
Noun
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But the film belongs to Moreno, clearly relishing the chance to play an unapologetic termagant.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
13 Mar. 2022
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Rita may be a bossy termagant, but her adoring Beppe appears to love being whacked around from time to time, so what’s the harm?—
John Von Rhein,
chicagotribune.com,
15 Apr. 2018
Noun
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Have no fear, as the love affair between Elvis impersonator Sailor Ripley and vivacious vixen Lula Fortune will also be showing at Prince Charles Cinema in London on Saturday, February 8 and Monday, February 10.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
2 Feb. 2025
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With his entourage of ballers and video vixens, his retinue of security, his talent for curation, Puff was the ringmaster of relevancy, the pied piper of fun and the force at the very center of cultural power.—
Amy DuBois Barnett,
The Hollywood Reporter,
4 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Skin is important here, not just its color but its texture as Josephine, for example, goes from elegant sophisticate to sweaty, sunburned, frizzy virago increasingly swollen with pregnancy and angry mosquito bites.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
25 Aug. 2023
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Meredith is a stereotypical virago updated with modern libertarian notions.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
5 July 2023
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For those guys, mothers are either harpies or sirens—villains or traps.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
2 May 2024
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This is her name for the seventh circle of hell from Dante’s Inferno, where the souls of those who’ve committed suicide become trees, and harpies peck at them for all eternity.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
21 Nov. 2023
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“Fishwife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fishwife. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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