hellcat

Example Sentences

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In one of the evening’s best notions, Iskandar and Pancholy play down the cartoonish concept of Katherina as a tantrum-throwing hellcat.

From Washington Post • May 25, 2016

CSI stalwart Sarah Butler does what she can with the much-wronged hellcat, but her character's condign rage rouses ne'er a flicker of empathy.

From The Guardian • Jan. 24, 2011

You might howl at the sheer audacity of mixing mental illness with the body-fatiguing, mind-numbing rigors of ballet, but its lurid imagery and a hellcat competition between two rival dancers is pretty irresistible.

From Reuters • Sep. 1, 2010

Sylvia Sidney is the pert mountain lass who turns hellcat when the Falins kill her baby brother.

From Time Magazine Archive

Has this presumptuous hellcat who bore thee taught thee to stand before my face, to tell me what thou wilt and wilt not do?

From The Sea-Hawk by Sabatini, Rafael