SCENE-STEALER Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

scene-stealer

noun

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as in monologist

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Recent Examples of scene-stealer Tim Blake Nelson sets the stage beautifully with his opening bit about a singing cowboy, but there are a number of scene-stealers here including Harry Melling, Tom Waits, and Bill Heck. —

Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2025 Gorgeously textured and frequently very funny—Griffin’s wisecracking younger brother, Oren, is a scene-stealer—the book’s particular portrait of late-20th-century, upper-middle-class adolescence takes a generously wide angle, reveling in all the heady, scuzzy, confusing bits of coming of age. —

Vogue, 26 Dec. 2024 The strippers are rock-star parts, gloriously unembarrassed, scene-stealers if ever there were any. —

Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024 As Derek, the inexplicably agreeable husband to Christa Miller’s filter-free Liz, McGinley already was a scene-stealer. —

Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for scene-stealer

Recent Examples of Synonyms for scene-stealer

Noun

With an elite attack consisting of Kylian Mbappe, Vinicius Junior, Jude Bellingham and Rodrygo, big things were expected of Real Madrid again this season following their 2023-24 double of La Liga and Champions League titles.

— Thom Harris, The Athletic, 8 Feb. 2025
From there, the show spun outward, presenting a whole cast of shadowy doubles and mysteriously cosmic back doors—during which distance grew between us, the confused audience, and Laura’s death, which had kicked off the entire franchise.

— K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025