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
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
And Gipsy, feeling as though she were his murderess, sat by his side, and, gazing on the still, cold form, shed the first bitter tears that had ever fallen from her eyes.
From Sharing Her Crime by May Agnes Fleming
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