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Recent Examples of hag
The film treats Ryder’s Beth as the evil hag witch who the virginal hard worker Nina has to beat to achieve her dreams, and Ryder plays that role with relish and gusto.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2024
Oh, and Jen is also there, dressed as the hag form of the Evil Queen from Snow White.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
Goth did double duty in X, playing both Maxine, the adult-film director’s girlfriend and star, and homicidal hag Pearl.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024
Its narrator was Constance Garnett, the real-life translator of Russian classics, reimagined as a senile, spotlight-stealing hag.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
The Furies of ancient Greece and Rome were also divine, a trio of miserable hags with snakes for hair.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Disguising herself as an old hag, the queen poisons her with an apple, ...
—Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 30 July 2023
The perpetually unsatisfied title character, a demanding New York art critic played by Tilda Swinton as a hag with hair the color of hibiscus tea, is obsessed with archiving the life’s work of her late husband (RZA), who left behind a series of egg paintings no one seems to understand.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
All at once a seductress and a hag; a cunning shapeshifter and a gullible fool tricked into the service of the devil.
—Kate Wheeling, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2024
Oh, and Jen is also there, dressed as the hag form of the Evil Queen from Snow White.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
Goth did double duty in X, playing both Maxine, the adult-film director’s girlfriend and star, and homicidal hag Pearl.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024
Its narrator was Constance Garnett, the real-life translator of Russian classics, reimagined as a senile, spotlight-stealing hag.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
The Furies of ancient Greece and Rome were also divine, a trio of miserable hags with snakes for hair.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Disguising herself as an old hag, the queen poisons her with an apple, ...
—Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 30 July 2023
The perpetually unsatisfied title character, a demanding New York art critic played by Tilda Swinton as a hag with hair the color of hibiscus tea, is obsessed with archiving the life’s work of her late husband (RZA), who left behind a series of egg paintings no one seems to understand.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
All at once a seductress and a hag; a cunning shapeshifter and a gullible fool tricked into the service of the devil.
—Kate Wheeling, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hag
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The first part of that is spoken by one of the three witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and was later repurposed by Bradbury as the title of his 1962 fantasy novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes.Chris Stanton, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
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Resembling a witch's face, this nebula is a stellar nursery some 1,300 light-years from Earth.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
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As the moon passes through its phases, Ixchel passes through the phases of a woman’s life, from maiden to mother to crone.Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2024
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From its use of camera angles and extreme close-ups to frame Sue's hypersexual appeal to the heinous prosthetics that transform Moore into a monstrous crone, writer-director Coralie Fargeat wants to hammer home the ugliness, objectification, and self-loathing perpetuated by female beauty standards.Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024
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There have been a few seasons of the show in which men (see: season five Cole) are portrayed as innocent but good-hearted idiots and women as harsh shrews.Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 31 Oct. 2024
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Revolutionizing Fossil Analysis with X-Ray Imaging The concept arose almost by chance when Ian Corfe was probing shrew teeth at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in France (synchrotrons are high-powered instruments that use X-ray beams).Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
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“Hag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hag. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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