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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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There appears to be a bizarre codependency among residents, and Laura is still particularly close to her mentor, Tall Pines Academy headmistress, Evelyn Wade (a hauntingly good Toni Collette).—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
25 Sep. 2025
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Exhausted from filling in as headmistress at her school, Olga tries to hold the fraying family together.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Aug. 2025
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Cutting federal funding In a move that affects public school students across the country, the department has slashed hundreds of millions of dollars in grant funding for a variety of programs, including for mental health professionals and for training and supporting new teachers.—
Megan O’Matz,
ProPublica,
10 Oct. 2025
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Brian Duffy has spent his entire three-decade career in Julian, working as a fifth-grade teacher for a decade and as a principal for another.—
Sam Schulz,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Oct. 2025
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Anat, the mother, is a schoolteacher who has passed on to her pupils and to her child the ethos of military service in defense of the country.—
Gershom Gorenberg,
The Atlantic,
3 Oct. 2025
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That’s what allowed his wife, a schoolteacher in New Hampshire, to retire.—
Jim Cramer,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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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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The search for a missing schoolmarm is the focus of an escape room experience at the Lanesfield School, a historic one-room schoolhouse in Edgerton.—
Beth Lipoff,
Kansas City Star,
12 Mar. 2025
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In the 1930s, Colonel Stewart, the hotel owner, had a mistress named Margaret who fell to her death from the top story.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 Oct. 2025
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First, Donald asks his old pal Chubs to get rid of his mistress, Betty Jo; in exchange, Marty can head up Donald’s gubernatorial security detail.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
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His father, Robert, was a Cambridge graduate and a schoolmaster who died in 1879, leaving a modest estate, of which Henry, the eldest of eight children, was an executor.—
Ben Yagoda,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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English schoolmaster Henry Watson Fowler (1858-1933) and his brother, the writer Francis George Fowler (1871-1918), devoted their lives to encouraging us to write more clearly and directly.—
Chris John Amorosino,
Hartford Courant,
26 Apr. 2025
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Even for instructors that care about teaching, keeping student’s attention is increasingly challenging from pedagogues at elementary schools to graduate school professors at elite universities as students show up distracted and on their phones.—
Sergei Revzin,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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They are attracted to personalities that feel to them more like friends than pedagogues.—
Caroline Downey,
National Review,
18 July 2025
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On orders from the headmaster, the teacher had asked all the Indian students to raise their hands.—
Eric Lach,
New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2025
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My grandfather was a headmaster.—
Nancy Tartaglione,
Deadline,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Schoolmistress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolmistress. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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