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taskmistress

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task·mis·tress  (tskmstrs)
n.
A woman who imposes tasks, especially burdensome or laborious ones.
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Noun1.taskmistress - a woman taskmaster
taskmaster - someone who imposes hard or continuous work


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A witheringly critical taskmistress with her students (and easily threatened to the point of cruelly sabotaging ones who show more talent than she does), Erika seems every bit the bitter, brainy spinster.
`At rehearsals, Nadia was a hard taskmistress, making me practise again and again until I got it right.
Martha is a woman who is 6 foot 5, who is a control freak, who is a real taskmistress.
 
 
 
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