murderess

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Marten said she was worried people would think she was "some evil mother" or a "murderess."

From BBC • May 2, 2025

Rivera also inhabited roles like Rosie, the girlfriend of a rock star’s manager in “Bye Bye Birdie,” the original Velma and later the ambitious murderess Roxie in “Chicago,” and former showgirl Lilane in “Nine.”

From Salon • Jan. 30, 2024

A 1950s lawman pursues a murderess who appears to have vanished from a locked room within a fortresslike psychiatric hospital.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2019

Silence, rather than offering up an explanation for the end of her marriage, was her crime, and in the hysterical Paget’s eyes, it made her tantamount to a murderess.

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2018

And he sent his son from the court, being afraid the pardoned murderess might devise some new scheme for his destruction.

From Historic Tales, Vol. XIII (of 15), Part I The Romance of Reality. King Arthur by Morris, Charles