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UK
/ˈæntɪhˌiəɹəʊ/
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NOUN
- a protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine)
How To Use antihero In A Sentence
- Then our antihero is seen tenderly removing the fish from the boat’s hull. Archive 2007-06-01
- Our lone female antiheroine not only falls for the student protester, but she also agrees to help him with a robbery in order to help fund an all out war on the corrupt police. Remembering Yasuharu Hasebe (1932-2009)
- Even though she's presented as an emotionally cold person and therefore more of an antiheroine, she's relieved from being tarred with the usual misogynist brush in a few key ways. "On the Female Vampire," Evie Byrne Guest Post
- Petronio's attempt at alchemy -- converting superheroism into antiheroism -- simply fails. Chicago Reader
- Dudeism, a quasi-religion based upon the teachings of the film's antihero The Dude, has been the result of its slow-burn success and this event brings its founder Oliver Benjamin to the Idler magazine's west London slacker school for a debate on tenpin bowling, naps and kicking back. This week's new events
- It starts as a heist movie, we're invited to root for the beautiful heroine/antiheroine who is in moral turmoil; and then - well, you know what happens next. MIND MELD: The Best Genre Crossovers
- But his antiheroine is, to my mind, a greater achievement. Times, Sunday Times
- Most interesting is the brilliance with which the series plays the antihero game. Times, Sunday Times
- I first saw the new antihero last year on a waitperson's chest (slogan: ‘Cute but psycho’), but I didn't know her name then.
- The following year, Woo's A Better Tomorrow ... introduced Chow Yun-fat as the sullen, brutal antihero and Cheung as his sensitive counterpart.