Examples of harridan in a Sentence
if you were married to that harridan, you, too, would take to drink
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Better yet, the pervasive myth that women become shriveled harridans after 30 couldn’t be further from the truth.
The praise was largely glowing for Janney’s turn as Tonya Harding’s mother, LaVona Golden, a harridan with a sharp tongue and, at times, a parakeet on her shoulder.
As the dispossessed Queen Margaret, whose prophetic curses haunt the play, Ms. Redgrave is not the usual shrieking harridan but a bone-weary old woman, whose madness is steeped in a quiet, blisteringly bitter fatalism.
Fricka, Wotan’s wife, sung with molten tone by Jamie Barton, isn’t the traditional harridan, but sober and wounded.
At Goodspeed, Kristine Zbornik, as Albert’s comic harridan of a smothering matriarch, just about stops the show with her rendition.
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HARRIDAN Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of harridan for English Language Learners
: an angry and unpleasant woman
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