murderess
Example Sentences
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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
Her Democratic opponent, Felicia French, wasn’t some international drug trafficker or ax murderess, but rather a nurse and veteran of the war in Afghanistan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2022
Jennifer Jason Leigh, with her finely filigreed vocal role in that stop-motion-animated love story and her barn-burning turn as the murderess Daisy Domergue in The Hateful Eight, has pitched two cinematic no-hitters in one year.
From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2016
Anne had been to Cassavetti’s rooms that night; though nothing would ever induce me to believe she was his murderess.
From The Red Symbol by John Ironside
