harpy
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Synonyms for harpy
Synonyms
battle-ax (or battle-axe), dragon lady, fury, harridan, shrew, termagant, virago, vixen
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The clergy and royal courts in days of yore used images of griffins, hellmouths, harpies, dragons and sea swine to instill fear, to divide anxious populations, to assert dominance and control, and to ostracize non-Europeans. — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, "‘Medieval Monsters’ exhibit at Cleveland Museum of Art surveys images used to inspire fear, hatred and wonder," 1 Sep. 2019 Elizabeth Moss, as Claire, has based her career playing sad-sacks and harpies, in Mad Men, The Square, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Her Smell; so Moss is a comic actress by default. — Armond White, National Review, "The Kitchen Is a Berserk, Female-Revenge Fantasy — and a Bad Movie," 9 Aug. 2019 There are fairies and nymphs, unicorns, harpies, giants, ogres, trolls, Gollums and dragons. — Patti Restivo, baltimoresun.com, "'Pip-Pip The Dragon' at Howard Community College delivers magic that is out of this world," 14 June 2019 But maybe these women aren’t evil vixens or cold-hearted harpies. — Andrea Bartz, Marie Claire, "Sometimes I Exploit My Sexuality and I'm Not Sorry," 25 Feb. 2019 Teri Terrific, as she was known among friends, was much maligned in the film industry as a harpy who exploited Ms. Shields and turned her into an unprotesting meal ticket. — Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, "Nothing Comes Between Brooke Shields and Her New Line for QVC," 14 Mar. 2018 Katzner is an experienced bird handler and one of two working with the harpy. — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, "Birds of Prey gets a rare addition and a multimillion-dollar expansion | Idaho Statesman," 12 Mar. 2018 The Silk Road’s Rayy bowl Excavating at Rayy, near Tehran, in the 1930s, Penn archaeologists uncovered a 12th or 13th century stonepaste bowl featuring crescent moons and a fearsome harpy. — Stephan Salisbury, Philly.com, "Penn Museum's Middle East Galleries reopen: Behold, the queen's beer straw," 19 Apr. 2018 About the harpy Harpy eagles are native to Panama’s Darien Gap, a 4 million acre swath of roadless rainforest. — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, "Birds of Prey gets a rare addition and a multimillion-dollar expansion | Idaho Statesman," 12 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'harpy.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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