villainesses

plural of villainess

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Noun
  • Yet if the Dodgers are to be cast as villains from the Book of Samuel, Toronto brought to the fight far more than pebbles.
    Andy McCullough, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • For the 2017 Dress to Be Free Halloween Party at House of Yes in New York City, Cardi B went as one of Disney's most notorious villains.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • These twin influences, religious fervor and a preoccupation with dangerous men, would go on to define the next six decades of the director’s working life, finding expression as a conviction that even scoundrels are in possession of a soul.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Swashbucklers, scoundrels, bandits and buccaneers will soon be bellying up to the bar inside a lively new pirate pub at Walt Disney World that’s already booked solid for the first two months and promises to be a must-have reservation for visitors.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Up until then, slashers were silent assassins or a breather.
    Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Nov. 2025
  • The upcoming movie takes place in a near-future dystopia in which a man (Powell) must try to survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins — all while being filmed for a popular national television show.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • To suggest that another candidate’s supporters are criminals — particularly when that candidate is, by all measures, poised to win at least a plurality of votes in the city — does not seem like a recipe for earning New Yorkers’ support.
    New York Times, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Binance also lacked protocols — standard for financial services companies — to report transactions for money laundering risks, according to the Justice Department, and employees were well aware that such an oversight would invite criminals to the platform.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In The Big Lebowski, thugs mistake the titular slacker (Bridges) for the wealthy Jeffrey Lebowski, sending him on a wild investigation with his pal Walter (John Goodman) into a ransom plot involving Lebowski’s young wife (Tara Reid).
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Their neighbor, an older Jewish woman, gets arrested and Nazi thugs brazenly loot her apartment.
    Rabih Alameddine September 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • McLusky, however, isn’t interested in meeting new gangsters or unknown criminals in his town.
    Demetrius Patterson, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The other is about Chicago-style gangsters circa 1929.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Old Eight Eighty—I Among all the rogues in history, no class has been more persistent than counterfeiters, and only thieves have been more numerous.
    David Grann, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Among the colorful cast of rogues, villains, queens and clergymen, Andre The Giant stands out as the young suitor’s kind-hearted but stupid brute.
    Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
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“Villainesses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/villainesses. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.

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