crone

as in hag
a mean or ugly old woman a run-down house that was inhabited by a cantankerous crone who kept to herself

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Recent Examples of crone Though the character is traditionally played as a cackling crone, she'll be glammed up for Wednesday. EW.com, 6 Aug. 2025 Today, there are 12 practitioners at Tea & Tarot that do a variety of things including Akashic records, tea leaf readings, angel numbers and numerology, herbal facials, tarot, herbal tarot, crone magic, astrology, mediumship and animal communication. Sarah Kyrcz, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2025 Hahn: Agatha wears this locket around her neck with Hecate — the maiden, mother, crone. Angelique Jackson, Variety, 12 June 2025 None of these books exactly celebrate the status of the crone; all offer midlife beauty-maintenance tips. Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for crone
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Noun
  • 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
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  • Egg carton witches on popsicle stick brooms littered the craft table no matter the season.
    Christa Carmen, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • In Hocus Pocus, Dani, her older brother Max (Omri Katz) and his crush Allison (Vinessa Shaw) have to save the children of Salem, Massachusetts after accidentally awaking the witch Sanderson sisters from their 300-year slumber.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2025

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“Crone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crone. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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