🔤 Xanthippe ✨

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🔊 Play Roman

xanthippe, socrates ki biwi, jhagraloo aurat

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📚noun

xanthippe

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DEFINITION

the wife of socrates known for her supposedly bad temper or any quarrelsome woman

EXAMPLE SENTENCES

Xanthippe is often portrayed as a difficult wife although historical accounts may be unfairly biased. The term xanthippe is sometimes used to describe a woman with a sharp tongue and argumentative nature. Scholars debate whether xanthippe truly deserved her reputation as a shrew or was misrepresented by ancient writers. The playwright depicted xanthippe as a complex character rather than a simple caricature of a nagging wife. His friends jokingly called his arguing wife xanthippe though she was actually quite pleasant most of the time.

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shrew nagging woman scold