How to Use antiheroine in a Sentence
antiheroine
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The antiheroines are Brentwood moms who were driven to lives of crime by lofty ambitions and high-status anxiety.
—Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2019
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In Regina, whose individualism is refined rather than rugged, Hellman created one of the stage’s great antiheroines and a glide bomb of a role.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2017
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Emma Stone stars as our devilish antiheroine and Emma Thompson provides her old-school fashion foil as the Baroness.
—Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2021
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Harley Quinn is a former gymnast who eventually traded in her leotard for a psychologist's lab coat — and then traded that in for the colourful wardrobe of a comic book antiheroine.
—Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 27 Mar. 2020
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Sissy Spacek's breakthrough performance as the title character cemented her as the classic vengeful antiheroine.
—CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
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Its most recent episode aired five months ago — a wait that would surely have tested the patience of the show’s antiheroine Annalise Keating (Viola Davis), let alone fans.
—Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2020
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Their preferred palettes differ significantly, too; where red is our antiheroine's signature color, her nemesis appears primarily in browns, greens, and golds (though she's pictured here at a black-and-white ball).
—Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2021
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For my money, no literary antiheroine can best Undine—a dazzling monster with rose-gold hair, creamy skin, and a gaping spiritual maw that could swallow New York City.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2019
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The film’s antiheroine is played by Keira Knightley, who just might take your breath away with her historically inaccurate gowns bedecked with Tiffany and Chanel accessories.
—Vogue, 3 Nov. 2020
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Fictional male antiheroes like television's crime patriarchs Tony Soprano and Walter White have reigned for some time, but the antiheroine has only more recently had the opportunity to rise up -- and become the cause of her own downfall.
—CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
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