Term: shrewishness: a nature given to nagging or scolding
Broader: ill nature: a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition | Unrelated: dangling participle: a participle (usually at the beginning of a sentence) apparently modifying a word other than the word intended: e.g., `flying across the country' in `flying across the country the Rockies came into view'
Broader: ill nature: a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition | Unrelated: cockscomb: a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red
Broader: ill nature: a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition | Unrelated: engorgement: congestion with blood
Broader: ill nature: a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition | Unrelated: smooth winterberry holly: a holly shrub
Broader: ill nature: a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition | Unrelated: espionage: the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets
Broader: ill nature: a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition | Unrelated: escape: the discharge of a fluid from some container
Broader: ill nature: a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition | Unrelated: one-fifth: one part in five equal parts
Broader: ill nature: a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition | Unrelated: western malayo-polynesian: a western subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languages
Broader: ill nature: a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition | Unrelated: taurotragus: African antelopes: elands
Broader: ill nature: a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition | Unrelated: landslide: an overwhelming electoral victory