antihero
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Bardem’s villain is built more like an aughts-edition antihero.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
Rice’s readers might not have been quite so queasy about this; her antihero has a way of making many horrors palatable.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
But Potter, who struggled with unchecked mental illness, depicted himself as an antihero outsider with a spiritual connection to the ravens of Yosemite, and could also be juvenile, selfish and oblivious.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
He refuses to characterize Laxman as a seductive antihero, perhaps on the moral grounds of not wanting to make such a man seem attractive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
The story’s sassy, brassy antihero has likewise adorned Christmas trees and school library shelves for generations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2025
We are introduced to mortgage-backed securities and to the people who dreamt them up and abused them, antiheroes of the 2007-09 debt debacle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
His comedic sensibility explores cruelty, shock, transgressions and antiheroes — and it’s also what continues to draw him to literature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Now private-equity executives fill the roles of villains or antiheroes in shows like Billions and Succession, the latter providing this bit: “You know how, like, everyone hates you?”
From Barron's ● Dec. 5, 2025
The original NWO, which consisted of “Hollywood” Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, were so bad they became antiheroes and immensely popular.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2025
The movie pays homage to the French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville, who specialized in stark crime stories, suffused with ennui and populated by emotionally distant antiheroes.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
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Power Prefix: Anti
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Prefixes: anti-
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