shrewishly

When will you learn not to act so shrewishly?

The narrator's wife is named Anne, and she shrewishly refuses to help with the dinner.

On and on she went shrewishly until his sleepy brain could take no more.

'What is it you want?' she asked shrewishly.

He is very well-favoured and he speaks very shrewishly; one would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.

Julie Lawry cried, her voice rising shrewishly.

"I saw IT myself," said Cousin Teresa, a trifle shrewishly.

Marie's voice rose shrewishly, riding the high waves of the baby's incessant outcry against the restrictions upon appetite imposed by enlightened motherhood.

When Olivia insists, he cannot say anything nice ("He is very well-favored") without adding something nasty ("He speaks very shrewishly").

The ship felt good, and real, and solid the Wraith looked proper stashed away inside this alcove, and the reapplication of gravity reminded him shrewishly that he hadn't had painkillers since leaving McCoy in Delmarva.