Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An antihero who is a woman or girl.
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- noun literature, gaming A female
protagonist who proceeds in anunheroic manner, such as bycriminal means, viacowardly actions, or formercenary goals; a femaleantihero .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Her antiheroine tortures detective Archie Sheridan, carving out his spleen, cutting a heart shape into his chest and feeding him drain cleaner.
A Female Serial Killer Takes a Breather Alexandra Alter 2011
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It starts as a heist movie, we're invited to root for the beautiful heroine/antiheroine who is in moral turmoil; and then - well, you know what happens next.
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The predatory antiheroine who steals a small fortune becomes the prey, while the meek victim of an innkeeper is revealed to be a deranged murderer.
My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010
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Even though she's presented as an emotionally cold person and therefore more of an antiheroine, she's relieved from being tarred with the usual misogynist brush in a few key ways.
"On the Female Vampire," Evie Byrne Guest Post Victoria Janssen 2010
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Ruby, the silly but likable antiheroine of Hilary Freeman's perceptive and fast-paced Lifted (Piccadilly Press, £6.99), comes from a more recognisable contemporary teen world, where insecurity and boredom are the sources of most ills.
Summer reading for teenagers: darkness, danger and charity shops Geraldine Brennan 2010
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Our lone female antiheroine not only falls for the student protester, but she also agrees to help him with a robbery in order to help fund an all out war on the corrupt police.
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Hence it is hard to see why she would have wanted to play the Marquise de Merteuil, the elaborately deceitful antiheroine of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," Christopher Hampton's "Masterpiece Theatre" - style stage version of Choderlos de Laclos's 1782 epistolary novel about a pair of aristocratic immoralists who make the fatal mistake of putting their heads in a noose of their own knotting.
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That confession could come straight from the lips of Mavis Gary, the caustic antiheroine of "Young Adult."
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That confession could come straight from the lips of Mavis Gary, the caustic antiheroine of "Young Adult."
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If ever Balanchine had re-choreographed the full four-act "Swan Lake," I'd like to imagine he'd have made the scene for the antiheroine Odile like this: voluptuous, intoxicating, with the ballerina leading a female throng whose energies all grow increasingly wild around the bewildered but overwhelmed hero.
NYT > Home Page By ALASTAIR MACAULAY 2011
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