shrewishly

1. 1.

   in a shrewish manner

Questions about shrewishly

What does shrewishly mean?

shrewishly means "in a shrewish manner".

How many syllables are in shrewishly?

shrewishly has 3 syllables and divides as shre-wish-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is shrewishly a common word?

shrewishly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.