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

I neither know nor suspect that—that she—Jim Cayley, would you believe Mary to be a murderess, even if all the world declared her to be one?

From The Red Symbol by Ironside, John