noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A doormat for that bullying old harridan to wipe her feet on.
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Approaching the lodging house it looks as if the old harridan has got a gang together to repel unwelcome boarders.
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He reached for the lamp a second time, feeling the bed shake as the harridan prepared to make her escape.
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I can be an old harridan but I try to be controlled.
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Sometimes she seemed such a gullible innocent, sometimes she was an infuriating harridan , sometimes a malevolent witch.
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With a roar, he turned on the harridans and flew at them, and the harridans were beset with physical chastisement.