What is "villainess"

Usage examples of "villainess".

By the time Ryan got done with her and all of America had read his story, she was either going to be a heroine, an evil villainess, or a laughingstock.

She must remember that she was someone who could not possibly be the villainess in a heated divorce action.

Was it possible that Villainess Ethel had an accomplice in that nice Mr.

Visions of her hard-won career in ruins due to ghastly rumors that she might be a villainess danced wildly in her brain.

Thus, in an intense scene in Robots and Empire, the villainess gives one robot a direct order.

For a while, then, there is a confrontation in which the villainess reinforces her own order while a second robot tries to reason the first robot into a greater realization of the harm that will be done to the heroine.

It was these two robots who were engaged in the struggle with the villainess, the Lady Vasilia.

The villains and villainesses were all neatly labelled and you were sure of your ground.

Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth is a spec­tacular cavalcade of battles, of stunning plot reversals, with heroes and heroines, villains and villainesses, caught up in a superbly imaginative, intricately plotted invasion of Earth-as seen entirely and uniquely through the eyes of the aliens that already walk among us.

Which probably meant that they would bounce once and land back in my lap, to be disappeared from the ken of all villains and villainesses probably no better than I had hidden the Widowmaker armor.