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Recent Examples of hag
Is there a more ostentatious fat hag in America than Meghan McCain?
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Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 2025
People online can call you an old hag or too young, but one thing is for sure.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 3 Dec. 2025
Our conjure drives the cinematic imagination of Americans like the hags who ride our backs during our darkest nightmares.
—Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
Rather than hang out with the two old hags, Cherry decides to try her luck on the stand-up paddleboards with Brigitte and Daniel, but quickly loses her balance.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
But when the island’s prince is kidnapped, an unlikely alliance of an ogre, hag, wizard and fey will have only days to sneak around London to save him.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025
On the flipside is the hag: unattractive, withered and unpleasant.
—Chi Varnado, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
But any kinship with the master storyteller dissolves when the movie makes an abrupt swerve midway into witchy hag horror but fails to bolster that turn with compelling mythology.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
That lady is really the aforementioned murderous hag (Meredith Binder), her false veneer of youthful beauty reinforced by a magic mirror’s flattering (if also caustic) topless female spirits, and sustained via grisly methods seemingly inspired by Elizabeth Bathory.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 May 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hag
Noun
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This marks her second Golden Globe nomination for a legendary portrayal of the good witch of Oz.—
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The show, which also starred Alyssa Milano and Holly Marie Combs, centered on three sisters navigating the modern world — and often saving it — as powerful good witches.—
Noun
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The family had only one inside servant, Mai Viro, an ancient crone with a bead of sweat perpetually on her upper lip, who washed and carried and ruled the household from the kitchen and might in her sleep have pedalled a generator to provide electricity, if that had been required.—
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There on the bare table sat Sister Wang, naked, like a crone from a tale.—
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“Hag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hag. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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