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Recent Examples of hag
The regulars fired at them with a booming 12-pounder that made the American boys lift their knees like old hags, trip and founder as tentacles of water dragged them under.
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Literary Hub, 9 Jan. 2026
Is there a more ostentatious fat hag in America than Meghan McCain?
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 2025
People online can call you an old hag or too young, but one thing is for sure.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 3 Dec. 2025
Our conjure drives the cinematic imagination of Americans like the hags who ride our backs during our darkest nightmares.
—Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
Rather than hang out with the two old hags, Cherry decides to try her luck on the stand-up paddleboards with Brigitte and Daniel, but quickly loses her balance.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
But when the island’s prince is kidnapped, an unlikely alliance of an ogre, hag, wizard and fey will have only days to sneak around London to save him.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025
On the flipside is the hag: unattractive, withered and unpleasant.
—Chi Varnado, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
But any kinship with the master storyteller dissolves when the movie makes an abrupt swerve midway into witchy hag horror but fails to bolster that turn with compelling mythology.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
Literary Hub, 9 Jan. 2026
Is there a more ostentatious fat hag in America than Meghan McCain?
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 2025
People online can call you an old hag or too young, but one thing is for sure.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 3 Dec. 2025
Our conjure drives the cinematic imagination of Americans like the hags who ride our backs during our darkest nightmares.
—Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
Rather than hang out with the two old hags, Cherry decides to try her luck on the stand-up paddleboards with Brigitte and Daniel, but quickly loses her balance.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
But when the island’s prince is kidnapped, an unlikely alliance of an ogre, hag, wizard and fey will have only days to sneak around London to save him.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025
On the flipside is the hag: unattractive, withered and unpleasant.
—Chi Varnado, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
But any kinship with the master storyteller dissolves when the movie makes an abrupt swerve midway into witchy hag horror but fails to bolster that turn with compelling mythology.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hag
Noun
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Which might explain why McGlinchey is walking straight into the witch’s armpit with a smile on his face.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
23 Jan. 2026
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The grassroots campaign to get Madigan an Oscar nomination for her delicious portrayal of a youth-hungry witch proved successful.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
23 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Jimmy Crystal and his crones’ costumes, which include peroxide-blond wigs, are modeled after the British TV personality Jimmy Savile—one of the eeriest, most visually troubling ideas Garland has cooked up.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
15 Jan. 2026
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The family had only one inside servant, Mai Viro, an ancient crone with a bead of sweat perpetually on her upper lip, who washed and carried and ruled the household from the kitchen and might in her sleep have pedalled a generator to provide electricity, if that had been required.—
Daniyal Mueenuddin,
New Yorker,
23 Nov. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Hag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hag. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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