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Even a dance-off duel between underdog protagonist and villainess, offering prime opportunity for camp excess, falls flat.—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 23 May 2025 For many literary scholars, Cassandra Austen is a villainess of Miss Norris-esque proportions.—Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 2 May 2025 The show isn’t necessarily doing anything wildly off book — there are at least three other series about being reincarnated as the villainess in a fantasy story and failing at it.—Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025 The villainess is obsessed with asking her Magic Mirror who's the fairest of them all.—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for villainess
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