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Six example sentences with termagant, each labelled with its topic.
Restoration comedy leans on the termagant, a stock figure who scolds every visitor and drives the plot by sheer volume.
Literature
The opera gives the termagant role a rapid patter aria, sung at a tempo that leaves the singer breathless.
Music
Early comedies cast the landlady as a termagant, hands on hips, scolding tenants who owed a week's rent.
Movies
The cartoonist drew the landlady as a termagant, rolling pin raised and mouth open in mid-shout.
Art
Medieval mystery plays gave Noah a termagant for a wife, who refuses to board the ark and scolds him from the shore.
History
The tavern keeper in the game is written as a termagant who shouts every visitor out the door within a minute.
Gaming
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