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antiheroine

[ an-tee-her-oh-in, an-tahy- ]

noun

  1. a female protagonist, as in a novel or play, whose attitudes and behavior are not typical of a conventional heroine.


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Origin of antiheroine1

First recorded in 1905–10; anti- + heroine
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But as Ritter thickens her plot and ups the stakes, swapping con tricks for corpses, the book turns into a mystery, one that its antiheroine tries frantically to unravel.

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Rachvelishvili sang Carmen, the role of her 2009 breakthrough, hundreds of times, and was scheduled to ring in 2024 as Bizet’s classic antiheroine in the splashy premiere of a new production at the Met.

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Irina is the antiheroine of “Boy Parts,†adapted from Eliza Clark’s 2020 debut novel of the same name, and running at the Soho Theater, in London, through Nov. 25.

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Schmieding had the Peacock show, "Rutherford Falls," but her "Reservation Dogs" turn sells her as a compelling antiheroine game for just about anything.

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Be it the girlboss trope or antiheroine trope, women with ambition often follow it to their detriment, willing to screw over anyone in order to stay in power.

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