How to Use villainess in a Sentence

villainess

noun

• The evil villainess looks up with her piercing green eyes, dons a pair of creepy horns on her head, and wears a killer pair of massive wings on her back.
  — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Mar. 2019
• Kate McKinnon purrfects the quirks, cringe, and nonsense of the Tiger King villainess.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2022
• Bryce Dallas Howard sucked the marrow from her turn as villainess, and the baby vampire army was a little cool.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 3 July 2014
• The more interesting characters are the lovesick Hong Bing and the villainess Shu Ja, who are at least more vivid and less predictable.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2019
• That was from Cruella, the new movie starring Emma Stone as a younger version of the classic Disney villainess.
  — Shannon Rae Green, USA TODAY, 28 May 2021
• Tati Gabrielle, fearsome) is a homicidal villainess who could give James Bond a run for his money.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2022
• There’s magic gone wrong and light-hearted tension and music and dancing and silliness and a villainess played by Maya Rudolph.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Nov. 2022
• Sci-fi villainess vibes, which is honestly a perfect fit for NYFW.
  — Carly Cardellino, Cosmopolitan, 7 Sep. 2017
• Ti West surprised audiences at the end of X with the promise of Pearl, a prequel exploring the bloody origin story of X’s villainess.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2022
• Disney darling Dove Cameron has been acting for 7 years, playing everything from a villainess to Cher Horowitz.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 27 Mar. 2019
• While the villainess has the early upper hand, flooring Nicky with a backflip and astounding mid-air kick in the shoulder, Nicky strikes back, kicking Zhilan in the face and forcing the dagger out of her reach.
  — Max Gao, Vulture, 12 May 2021
• Chopra, whose villainess seems bored by the whole situation, would rather be eviling it up in a James Bond movie, and the fireworks-laden climax is full of punch but leans predictable and lacks excitement.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 23 May 2017
• One of very few African-American cast members, she was famously portrayed as the trouble-maker, a soap opera villainess.
  — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 20 Dec. 2017
• On the one hand, there is the villainess, Victoria Leeds (Priyanka Chopra), who is a drug dealer and a property developer: double bad.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
• This classic villainess will get her very own origin story on Disney+ starting today.
  — Travis Bean, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• Gellar did pay tribute to her scheming villainess in 2022’s Do Revenge, in which her unnamed headmaster gives off major Kathryn vibes.
  — Reboots Apr. 4, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
• Britain, the new Cruella trailer teases the villainess' many confrontations with the Baroness as her plot combines a nefarious thirst for vengeance and her desire to dominate the fashion world.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2021
• All the components of a traditional fairytale are present in the story: warring kings, a marriageable princess, fairies, a prince, enchantments, a villainess.
  — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 11 Apr. 2021
• Mistress Mickle, actually Jenny Early, is an actress who now has a gig playing the villainess in a children’s game show.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2021
• In either case, here’s hoping that the show will finally acknowledge Bette’s true nature, allowing this wolf in Armani clothing to be the glamorous villainess she was always meant to be.
  — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2019
• Sleeping Beauty villainess Maleficent (in two films so far).
  — Armond White, National Review, 28 May 2021
• Channeling her inner villainess, Kardashian went all-out for the Midori Green Halloween party in 2011.
  — Ariana Quihuiz, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022
• Weaver will be in attendance for the inaugural night of screenings on February 2 to talk about her iconic corporate villainess.
  — April Wolfe, Los Angeles Magazine, 25 Jan. 2018
• Her version is superbly dramatized and, with its cast of spineless lovers and hymen-breaking villainesses, a very Iranian tale, every scene designed to stir up fury or longing.
  — Dina Nayeri, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2018
• The dramatic conflict revolves around the plans of wealthy villainess Bitsy Brandenham (Stanley Tucci), who’s determined to turn the park into a home for condos and shopping centers.
  — Jeanne Jakle, ExpressNews.com, 4 June 2020
• When the sleety villainess menaces people, the production achieves needed focus and momentum, like a snowball speeding toward its target.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2019
• The plot has the Baywatchers rescuing drowning people, dispensing helpful lifesaving tips and tangling with a drug-smuggling villainess played by Priyanka Chopra.
  — Soren Andersen, The Seattle Times, 24 May 2017
• The boss, Clyde (the galvanic Tamberla Perry), is a larger-than-life, terrifyingly glamorous villainess in an ever-changing carapace of Lycra and leather haute couture.
  — Margaret Gray, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2022
• For institutional pre-Trump Republicans, Pelosi is perhaps the villainess par excellence, and cutting a deal with her is a Faustian bargain, only without the upfront benefits but all of the soul-selling.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2017
• Another idea was to center a film around The Baroness, a popular villainess and the lieutenant of Cobra Commander, head of the international villainous organization.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 May 2021

Last Updated: 23 Aug 2024