The word 'harridan' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe a strict, bossy, or overbearing woman, usually in a negative or derogatory manner. It is important to use this word with caution, as it may be considered offensive by some. Example: The new boss at the office was a complete harridan, constantly criticizing and micromanaging her employees.
Be a better father, a better son, a better friend.' I owe her a lot".Mr Netanyahu's recent paean to matrimony followed days of ugly reports and swirling rumours depicting Mrs Netanyahu as a henpecking harridan and the prime minister as her squirming victim.
Too often directors turn Paulina into a hectoring harridan; Ms Cusack instead is steely but compassionate, and her manifest devotion to Leontes helps make him all the more pitiable and lovable.The play's mood lightens when the action moves to Bohemia, which Mr Mendes depicts as a fantasia in the American south.
Perhaps, like the heroine of "Curly Top", she was marched upstairs to bed afterwards by some thin-lipped harridan, and the lights turned resolutely off.Not a bit of it.
Where has your good sense gone…" In contrast, Lattimore captures something far nearer to the original, a mother mourning her son's death: "Ah me, where has that wisdom gone for which you were famous?" Homer's epic is not just composed of harridan wives and brave men.
Despite that, nostalgia for the headless warrior or long-haired harridan has not vanished completely.
But theyodelling harridan whomade The Cranberriesinto one of Ireland's mostirritating exports hasn'tchanged her ways.
I can't say I'll be in a hurry to meet Mia again, because the point of Oona Chaplin's character is that she's an ocean-going harridan, so entangled in a sense of her own sexual allure that she can barely utter an un-sarcastic sentence.
It is based upon her paternal grandmother, a fierce harridan who struck fear into her children.
She was feared by her children and became a "gin alcoholic" by the end of her life, but the granddaughter is keen to unearth what happened, to find out how the pressure of 1940s society turned a young woman into a harridan.
I laughed immoderately at Sharon Horgan's portrayal of Frida Kahlo with a long droopy moustache, blithely ignoring the shrink's subtle enquiries ("Is it possible that you've... cultivated something that might be keeping him at arm's length?") and at Sheila Reid doing Mother Teresa as a chain-smoking Northern harridan.
His rec room was where he worked with the writers on the script for "The Other Guys" and filmed "The Landlord," a two-minute sketch about a two-year-old harridan that's been viewed seventy-six millionlinees online.
