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Recent Examples of hag
The film treats Ryder’s Beth as the evil hag witch who the virginal hard worker Nina has to beat to achieve her dreams, and Ryder plays that role with relish and gusto.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2024
Oh, and Jen is also there, dressed as the hag form of the Evil Queen from Snow White.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
Goth did double duty in X, playing both Maxine, the adult-film director’s girlfriend and star, and homicidal hag Pearl.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024
Its narrator was Constance Garnett, the real-life translator of Russian classics, reimagined as a senile, spotlight-stealing hag.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
The Furies of ancient Greece and Rome were also divine, a trio of miserable hags with snakes for hair.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Disguising herself as an old hag, the queen poisons her with an apple, ...
—Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 30 July 2023
The perpetually unsatisfied title character, a demanding New York art critic played by Tilda Swinton as a hag with hair the color of hibiscus tea, is obsessed with archiving the life’s work of her late husband (RZA), who left behind a series of egg paintings no one seems to understand.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
All at once a seductress and a hag; a cunning shapeshifter and a gullible fool tricked into the service of the devil.
—Kate Wheeling, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2024
Oh, and Jen is also there, dressed as the hag form of the Evil Queen from Snow White.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
Goth did double duty in X, playing both Maxine, the adult-film director’s girlfriend and star, and homicidal hag Pearl.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024
Its narrator was Constance Garnett, the real-life translator of Russian classics, reimagined as a senile, spotlight-stealing hag.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
The Furies of ancient Greece and Rome were also divine, a trio of miserable hags with snakes for hair.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Disguising herself as an old hag, the queen poisons her with an apple, ...
—Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 30 July 2023
The perpetually unsatisfied title character, a demanding New York art critic played by Tilda Swinton as a hag with hair the color of hibiscus tea, is obsessed with archiving the life’s work of her late husband (RZA), who left behind a series of egg paintings no one seems to understand.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
All at once a seductress and a hag; a cunning shapeshifter and a gullible fool tricked into the service of the devil.
—Kate Wheeling, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hag
Noun
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The ancient Greek epic illustrates a true hero’s journey as the titular figure faces Polyphemus the Cyclops, Sirens, the nymph Calypso and the witch goddess Circe in the treacherous oceans that separate him from his island home and wife Penelope.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
17 Feb. 2025
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Veronika was accused by her father-in-law of being a witch, but sought sanctuary in a Carthusian monastery, aided by the monk Prior Arnold.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Two crones in Budapest are lording over a cauldron of goulash right now discussing the game.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
4 Feb. 2025
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Popular culture’s usual parade of toothless codgers and crones increasingly seemed obsolete.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
The New Yorker,
25 Nov. 2024
Noun
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According to the Lincoln Park Zoo, northern tree shrews are most closely related to primates and have no relation to actual shrews other than a coincidental resemblance to them.—
Rhiannon Saegert,
Miami Herald,
20 Feb. 2025
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Here’s looking at shrew: How college students got first-ever photos of an elusive California mammal.—
Kevinisha Walker,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Feb. 2025
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“Hag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hag. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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