taskmistress

This description probably makes Ho sound like a taskmistress – an approachable one, but a drill coach more than the life coach that she is.

Uncle Clifford is a taskmistress, but she minds her dancers less in the way of a madam than a mother hen.

Ivana Trump was an immigrant from communist Czechoslovakia and a taskmistress who would not brook dissent.

Mrs Merkel knows that standing out as Europe’s taskmistress will be resented.

Ye find it not in luxury nor in gold, Not in the fame nor in the envied sway, For which O willing slaves to custom old, Severe taskmistress, ye your hearts have sold.