plural antiheroes
: a protagonist or notable figure who is conspicuously lacking in heroic qualities
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Having leapt over the garden wall, Milton’s athletic antihero flies up into a tree to survey his new surroundings.
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Katie Kadue, The New Yorker, 17 July 2024
Sam teams up with Sebastian Stan’s antihero Bucky Barnes, aka the Winter Soldier, to take down a group of terrorists.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 12 July 2024
What the movie is supposed to be is an adaptation of the Marvel Comics series featuring the antihero known as Venom.
—Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2018
Their mask-like headwear nods to an antihero of crime fiction dreamed up by writers Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre: Fantômas.
—Vogue, 25 June 2024
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Katie Kadue, The New Yorker, 17 July 2024
Sam teams up with Sebastian Stan’s antihero Bucky Barnes, aka the Winter Soldier, to take down a group of terrorists.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 12 July 2024
What the movie is supposed to be is an adaptation of the Marvel Comics series featuring the antihero known as Venom.
—Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2018
Their mask-like headwear nods to an antihero of crime fiction dreamed up by writers Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre: Fantômas.
—Vogue, 25 June 2024
See all Example Sentences for antihero
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“Antihero.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antihero. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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