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hag

noun

ˈhag

as in witch

a mean or ugly old woman although she looks like a hag, she's really the sweetest old lady you could ever hope to meet

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as in sorceress

a woman believed to have often harmful supernatural powers falsely accused of being a hag who had caused the plague

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Recent Examples of hag The film treats Ryder’s Beth as the evil hag witch who the virginal hard worker Nina has to beat to achieve her dreams, and Ryder plays that role with relish and gusto. —

Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2024 Oh, and Jen is also there, dressed as the hag form of the Evil Queen from Snow White. —

Katie Campione, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024 Goth did double duty in X, playing both Maxine, the adult-film director’s girlfriend and star, and homicidal hag Pearl. —

David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024 Its narrator was Constance Garnett, the real-life translator of Russian classics, reimagined as a senile, spotlight-stealing hag. —

Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024 The Furies of ancient Greece and Rome were also divine, a trio of miserable hags with snakes for hair. —

Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024 Disguising herself as an old hag, the queen poisons her with an apple, ... —

Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 30 July 2023 The perpetually unsatisfied title character, a demanding New York art critic played by Tilda Swinton as a hag with hair the color of hibiscus tea, is obsessed with archiving the life’s work of her late husband (RZA), who left behind a series of egg paintings no one seems to understand. —

Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023 All at once a seductress and a hag; a cunning shapeshifter and a gullible fool tricked into the service of the devil. —

Kate Wheeling, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022

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The ancient Greek epic illustrates a true hero’s journey as the titular figure faces Polyphemus the Cyclops, Sirens, the nymph Calypso and the witch goddess Circe in the treacherous oceans that separate him from his island home and wife Penelope.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 17 Feb. 2025
Veronika was accused by her father-in-law of being a witch, but sought sanctuary in a Carthusian monastery, aided by the monk Prior Arnold.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025