Wednesday’s Womans Hour carried an item about
Female Baddies on film & tv. I was intrigued to hear that part way through the discussants – Jenni Murray, Karen Krizanovich & Dr Helen Hanson – slipped into using the word ‘evil’ to describe these women, but then seemed to shy away from that & went back to calling them simply bad – just as the OED noticed!
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