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- noun Plural form of
villainess .
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Examples
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Whores frequently appeared in almanac stories, stage plays, songs, and poems—as heroines as often as villainesses—but they seldom turned up in court records or in newspaper reports of crime in the city.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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I took a breath and kept my voice low so only my sister, and not the neighboring rooms—villainesses—could hear.
Times Squared Julia DeVillers 2011
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I took a breath and kept my voice low so only my sister, and not the neighboring rooms—villainesses—could hear.
Times Squared Julia DeVillers 2011
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Torture is the hallmark of one of horror literature's great villainesses - Annie Wilkes, from Stephen King's Misery.
MIND MELD: Bad Guys We Love to Hate: The Best Literary Villains in SF/F/H 2009
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The kind of psychosexual, misogynistic thrillers in the 80s—women went from being glamorous and awesome in those movies to being crazy, batshit villainesses.
Kristin McCracken: Good Neighbors: Bringing Humor Back to Noir Kristin McCracken 2011
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Strong villainesses in fantasy, horror and science fiction literature are, unfortunately, not as prevalent as their male counterparts.
MIND MELD: Bad Guys We Love to Hate: The Best Literary Villains in SF/F/H 2009
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The kind of psychosexual, misogynistic thrillers in the 80s—women went from being glamorous and awesome in those movies to being crazy, batshit villainesses.
Kristin McCracken: Good Neighbors: Bringing Humor Back to Noir Kristin McCracken 2011
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It also features one of the best-drawn villainesses in fantasy in Baroness Ceaucescu.
MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 2) 2009
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The kind of psychosexual, misogynistic thrillers in the 80s—women went from being glamorous and awesome in those movies to being crazy, batshit villainesses.
Kristin McCracken: Good Neighbors: Bringing Humor Back to Noir Kristin McCracken 2011
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Many of us actresses have long outgrown this cliché and do roles as heroines as well as villainesses.
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