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Konoha Satou’s dark fictional past becomes her reality when she’s reincarnated as Iana Magnolia, the villainess of her own adolescent fantasy.—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025 Fulton spent nearly 50 years playing the soap opera villainess Lisa Miller.—Shania Russell, EW.com, 20 July 2025 By the halfway point, when the vampy, non-comic villainess Spider Lady (Carol Forman) takes over the narrative, the plot gets repetitive and the temptation to skip over the next few Saturday screenings becomes overpowering.—Rory Doherty, Vulture, 11 July 2025 For many literary scholars, Cassandra Austen is a villainess of Miss Norris-esque proportions.—Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 2 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for villainess
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