villainesses

Definition of villainessesnext
plural of villainess

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Noun
  • There are no villains—or maybe life, or growing up, or getting older, is the villain.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • But watching Ready or Not 2, which comes from returning directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, I was consumed with how quaint its characterization of its villains was.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Political leaders who encourage or tolerate such scoundrels should be driven from office.
    Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Giannis, a gentleman even in this era of scoundrels, likely wants to do right by the Bucks, too.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Mirrors were such a precious commodity in the heyday of the Venetian Republic that the assassins were dispatched to, well, dispatch any defectors who left La Serenissima and tried to take the secrets of creating that mesmerizing, reflective surface along with them.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Consider Bobbi, one of the assassins sent north to find Armando.
    Michael Snyder, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Cyber criminals linked to Iran have accessed FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email account, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
    CBS News, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
  • That convenience also gives criminals a perfect disguise.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • No government masked thugs shooting down our neighbors in the streets.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Suddenly Odin gets a call telling him Korps leader Attila (Eili Harboe) and her thugs are on their way to finish the job.
    K.J. Yossman, Variety, 27 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • American gangsters ran the hotels and the gambling.
    Joseph J. Gonzalez, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Kelly spends the first half of his book running through a who’s who of the New England underworld, gangsters and mob wannabes who likely came into contact with the art before the investigation reached Maine and Gentile.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 22 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Streetwise rogues in the mould of an enigmatic leader… there are certainly parallels between Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid and Tommy Shelby’s Peaky Blinders.
    Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • 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
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“Villainesses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/villainesses. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.

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