The Scold's Vocabulary


THE copiousness of the English language perhaps was never more apparent

than in the following character, by a lady, of her own husband:--



He is, says she, an abhorred, barbarous, capricious, detestable,

envious, fastidious, hard-hearted, illiberal, ill-natured, jealous,

keen, loathsome, malevolent, nauseous, obstinate, passionate,

quarrelsome, raging, saucy, tantalizing, uncomfortable, vexatious,

abominab
e, bitter, captious, disagreeable, execrable, fierce, grating,

gross, hasty, malicious, nefarious, obstreperous, peevish, restless,

savage, tart, unpleasant, violent, waspish, worrying, acrimonious,

blustering, careless, discontented, fretful, growling, hateful,

inattentive, malignant, noisy, odious, perverse, rigid, severe, teasing,

unsuitable, angry, boisterous, choleric, disgusting, gruff, hectoring,

incorrigible, mischievous, negligent, offensive, pettish, roaring,

sharp, sluggish, snapping, snarling, sneaking, sour, testy, tiresome,

tormenting, touchy, arrogant, austere, awkward, boorish, brawling,

brutal, bullying, churlish, clamorous, crabbed, cross, currish, dismal,

dull, dry, drowsy, grumbling, horrid, huffish, insolent, intractable,

irascible, ireful, morose, murmuring, opinionated, oppressive,

outrageous, overbearing, petulant, plaguy, rough, rude, rugged,

spiteful, splenetic, stern, stubborn, stupid, sulky, sullen, surly,

suspicious, treacherous, troublesome, turbulent, tyrannical, virulent,

wrangling, yelping dog-in-a-manger.



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