Usage examples (30)

• By that definition, an antihero is a flat character, one that is simply a placeholder in a story rather than a true protganist.
• Then our antihero is seen tenderly removing the fish from the boat’s hull.
• Or is he some kind of antihero, a man whose appetite for life (however stupidly indulged) just won't quit?
• Word comes that J.D. Salinger, whose "Catcher in the Rye" has intrigued generations with its "antihero" Holden Caulfield, has died at age 91.