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The premise, as always with this genre, is in the title: A 52-year-old bureaucrat and father has been hit by a truck (classic) and reborn in another world as the teenage villainess of his daughter’s favorite otome game (typically, romance games aimed at women).
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Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
In 2017, San Martin also had an arc on CBS’ The Bold and the Beautiful as Mateo, a handsome groundskeeper at Forrester Manor, who soon becomes involved in one of villainess Sheila’s schemes.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2025
The actress, 71, who first appeared as villainess Aunt Jordan in a November 2023 episode of The Young and the Restless, had her final appearance on the show's Friday, Jan. 24 installment.
—Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 25 Jan. 2025
In October, mega-producer Jason Blum and actress Allison Williams, who plays Gemma—the deuteragonist and hidden villainess of the M3GAN franchise—gave fans a sneak peek of the new movie at New York Comic Con.
—Andre Claudio, Sourcing Journal, 3 Jan. 2025
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Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
In 2017, San Martin also had an arc on CBS’ The Bold and the Beautiful as Mateo, a handsome groundskeeper at Forrester Manor, who soon becomes involved in one of villainess Sheila’s schemes.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2025
The actress, 71, who first appeared as villainess Aunt Jordan in a November 2023 episode of The Young and the Restless, had her final appearance on the show's Friday, Jan. 24 installment.
—Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 25 Jan. 2025
In October, mega-producer Jason Blum and actress Allison Williams, who plays Gemma—the deuteragonist and hidden villainess of the M3GAN franchise—gave fans a sneak peek of the new movie at New York Comic Con.
—Andre Claudio, Sourcing Journal, 3 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for villainess
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New threats emerge, including a ruthless new villain (Bill Skarsgård) and a blind assassin from Wick’s past, played by Donnie Yen in a standout performance.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
6 June 2025
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Nicholas Hoult plays the film’s villain, the megalomaniac super-genius Lex Luthor.—
Jack Dunn,
Variety,
5 June 2025
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Like a Dickensian Andy Capp, Johnson is an uber-charming rogue, an everyman bluesy belter whose winking humor with a hint of the scoundrel are not entirely unlike Scott’s demeanor, though each man’s vocals, inflection and stage presence are/were clearly their own.—
Katherine Turman,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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In the first, Trump treated a moral hero as an ungrateful scoundrel.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
27 Apr. 2025
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New threats emerge, including a ruthless new villain (Bill Skarsgård) and a blind assassin from Wick’s past, played by Donnie Yen in a standout performance.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
6 June 2025
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The operation, made up of Belarusian contract killers, runs a ballet academy that is a front for their assassin training facility.—
Shannon Carlin,
Time,
6 June 2025
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Like many of Anderson’s protagonists, Gustave is a reprobate of the first order, romancing old ladies for their fortunes and such.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
12 June 2025
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No decent person, let alone a political movement downstream of the biblical, Judeo-Christian tradition, as American conservatism necessarily is, should lift a finger to welcome such a wretched reprobate to our shores or shield him from justice.—
Newsweek,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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Mohammed's character Hugh has to snort cocaine during the trio's initial meeting with the gangster Fly (Paddy Considine) to prove that the trio aren't posers.—
Ralphie Aversa,
USA Today,
14 June 2025
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His father was a Genovese gangster murdered by the Colombo crime family in retaliation for committing two slayings — a story people told Pappa as a child — and his stepfather was locked up for drug and tax evasion charges.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
9 June 2025
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Since then, he’s been a haunted wretch of a character: stoned, sullen, stuck with recurring visions of shooting his wife and himself.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
8 Apr. 2025
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The unfortunate wretch makes an exciting escape, killing her captor in the process.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
18 Feb. 2025
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Often regarded by historians as a collection of savage tribes, the Scythians emerge as a pivotal force of the ancient world in this monumental history.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2023
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Nearly 32 years ago, Rodney King’s savage beating by police in Los Angeles prompted heartfelt calls for change.—
Aaron Morrison, Claudia Lauer and Adrian Sainz,
Anchorage Daily News,
29 Jan. 2023
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“Villainess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/villainess. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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