Thesaurus results for WRAITH

wraith

noun

ˈrāth

as in ghost

the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people the people who once lived here believed that their world was populated by wraiths and witches

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Recent Examples of wraith Human puppets swayed over a Pont like wraiths of those who had been staked there. 🎾 Follow Sports Dashing through it all was the torchbearer, his identity unknown. —Sally Jenkins, Washington Post, 27 July 2024 And the second revealed the full menagerie of creatures that will appear in Season 2, including wraiths, wolves, ents and a giant cave troll. —Jordan Moreau, Variety, 26 July 2024 In theory, Netflix’s Dead Boy Detectives should be a feast for the misery wraiths, faceless creatures who feed on pain and suffering. —Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2024 Indeed, Moore is writing in a treacherous emotional realm here, and her story moves with no more predictability than a wraith. —Ron Charles, Washington Post, 13 June 2023 See All Example Sentences for wraith

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So the unseen figure of the ghost becomes an expression of the filmmaker’s power over the frame, evoking the sadistic-voyeuristic nature of cinema in general and genre cinema in particular.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
And with that, the Woodstone property gained yet another ghost, one who may have just launched the show into its season endgame.

— Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 6 Mar. 2025