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For many literary scholars, Cassandra Austen is a villainess of Miss Norris-esque proportions.—Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 2 May 2025 The show isn’t necessarily doing anything wildly off book — there are at least three other series about being reincarnated as the villainess in a fantasy story and failing at it.—Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025 The villainess is obsessed with asking her Magic Mirror who's the fairest of them all.—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025 Before Blanchett played the Evil Stepmother of 2015’s Cinderella, Wiegler was the actress’s first stab at a fairy-tale-like villainess, rocking a white-trash accent offset by her sleek outfits and lethal skills with a gun.—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for villainess
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