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Recent Examples of schoolmistress
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) Smith won her first Academy Award for Best Actress for this curious, eccentric role as a 1930s schoolmistress who takes four young girls under her wing — for better and for worse.
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Christina Newland, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2024
Four years later came her Oscar-winning portrayal of an idiosyncratic English schoolmistress in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
—Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2024
The inspiration for Jean Brodie was a charismatic schoolmistress called Christina Kay.
—Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 28 July 2020
The home above was empty, except for the small cry of a little girl (who had just received a good-night kiss but didn’t want to go to sleep), and the shadow of a hoop skirt, like a black devil in a perverse schoolmistress’s ankle boots.
—Silvina Ocampo, The New Yorker, 11 July 2019
Usually, one schoolmistress declares her love to another and is rebuffed.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
FacebookTwitterPinterest 1/12On a walk with school-mates and a schoolmistress, London, 1957.From Bettmann/Getty Images.
—Vanity Fair, Vanities, 28 Mar. 2017
Christina Newland, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2024
Four years later came her Oscar-winning portrayal of an idiosyncratic English schoolmistress in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
—Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2024
The inspiration for Jean Brodie was a charismatic schoolmistress called Christina Kay.
—Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 28 July 2020
The home above was empty, except for the small cry of a little girl (who had just received a good-night kiss but didn’t want to go to sleep), and the shadow of a hoop skirt, like a black devil in a perverse schoolmistress’s ankle boots.
—Silvina Ocampo, The New Yorker, 11 July 2019
Usually, one schoolmistress declares her love to another and is rebuffed.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
FacebookTwitterPinterest 1/12On a walk with school-mates and a schoolmistress, London, 1957.From Bettmann/Getty Images.
—Vanity Fair, Vanities, 28 Mar. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolmistress
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Camila jokingly called the device Tronchatoro, or Trunchbull, after the sadistic school headmistress in Roald Dahl's Matilda.—
Brian Bennett,
Time,
13 Jan. 2026
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In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Green plays Miss Peregrine, the headmistress of a hidden school that protects children with unusual abilities.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Nov. 2025
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Even in the United States, his student turned assistant Henry LeTang became the tap teacher to hundreds, from starlets needing tailoring to the great Gregory Hines.—
Brian Seibert,
New Yorker,
13 May 2026
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The bill, which was supported by nurses, teachers, construction workers and service employees in Connecticut, is one of the biggest victories for organized labor in the state in recent years.—
Andrew Brown,
Hartford Courant,
12 May 2026
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The Kremlin also released footage Monday of Putin driving to personally pick up one of his old schoolteachers, Vera Gurevich, from a hotel lobby with a bouquet of flowers and an enthusiastic embrace before taking her for dinner at the Kremlin.—
Zahra Ullah,
CNN Money,
13 May 2026
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For schoolteachers, this is worse than whiplash, because there’s a crucial difference between the American-history-is-all-bad or -all-good preferences of the left or the right.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
12 May 2026
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This, to Newsom, is being strong; the right are the fainthearted schoolmarms now.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board took note of the hard-right’s distress, let down its tightly wound schoolmarm bun and snickered right out loud.—
Pat Beall,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 July 2025
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But the specific French dispensation—the idea that a man’s erotic life exists outside the moral world of his other obligations, that the wife and the mistress are a civilized arrangement, that desire is sovereign—this mythology did not make the crossing with me, or did not survive it intact.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 May 2026
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It was inspired by a real-life account of a French diplomat who has a Chinese mistress for 20 years, seemingly unaware that his paramour is actually a man, and a Communist spy.—
Marla Jo Fisher,
Daily News,
4 May 2026
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In Silber’s revival, the wise schoolmaster Mr. Lundie is Widow Lundie, and the town flirt Meg Brockie is a pub owner pushing middle age.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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The struggle inspired a young Newcastle schoolmaster named Thomas Spence to develop the world’s first basic income proposal.—
Will Glovinsky,
The Conversation,
30 Mar. 2026
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The series is devised and curated by poet/singer-songwriter/teacher Darius Degher who, along with poet-pedagogue Marit Anderson and local arts impresario Michael Schmitt, hosts the readings, according to a news release.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Apr. 2026
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Captain İsmet, Detective Kenan, and pedagogue Aysun uncover dark truths hidden in the town’s silence, where fear and guilt protect the killer.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
27 Mar. 2026
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John Lithgow co-stars as beloved Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore.—
K.J. Yossman,
Variety,
10 May 2026
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The chapter recently held an alumni meeting at the residence of the headmaster of a local private high school.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Schoolmistress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolmistress. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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