antihero
Example Sentences
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Frank is a lowlife antihero for the ages.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
“The character is the ultimate antihero and she’s a mother” — something that is rarely allowed.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026
Composer Bernard Herrmann’s score, his last, is alternately mellow and roiling, befitting its placid but simmering antihero.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
But Istvan, the antihero of Szalay’s fifth novel, is an extreme and engrossing case.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025
Gilligan also created “Pluribus” as a counterweight to the antihero era he helped define by contributing two unforgettable linchpins, Walter White and Saul Goodman.
From Salon • Nov. 26, 2025
Vocabulary lists containing antihero
Power Prefix: Anti
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: ant-, anti-
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Prefixes: anti-
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