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villain
  1. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought): A vile, wicked person.
    1. An extremely depraved person, or one capable or guilty of great crimes.
    2. A deliberate scoundrel.
  2. The bad person in a work of fiction; often the main antagonist of the hero.
  3. (poker) Any opponent player, especially a hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare: hero (“the current player”).
  4. Archaic form of villein.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “To me, he is a great villain, responsible for millions of deaths and for keeping the country in poverty.”
villainy
  1. Evil or wicked character or behaviour.
  2. A wicked or treacherous act.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “It is the picaresque story of an Irish adventurer who unconsciously reveals his villainy while attempting self-justification.”
      “Some are of opinion that he was induced to commit this villainy by the resentment of the rebuke given him by his master.”
      “They are remote and unrealistic ivory-tower idealists, corrupt self-seekers, secret subversives, or simply too weak to resist villainy.”
villainry
  1. villainousness
  2. Villains, spoken of as a group, usually in the phrase "the local villainry".
villainousness
  1. The state or condition of being villainous; wicked behaviour.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Their villainousness is so striking that the reader of the plays cannot help contemplating the dark side of human nature and exploring the motives of their evil behavior.”
      “As the cabal's infiltrant, Dolores Umbridge, Staunton is pitch-perfect in her twinkle-eyed, campy villainousness.”
      “One result is the notorious villainousness of American cookery, a villainousness so painful to a cultured uvula that a French hack-driver, if his wife set its masterpieces before him, would brain her with his linoleum hat.”
villainisation
  1. Alternative form of villainization
villainization
  1. The process of making somebody into a villain.
villainhood
  1. The state of being a villain.
villan
  1. Obsolete form of villain.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The next time you tune into The Bill and an Irish person appears, I bet you a pound to a penny the person is a villan.”
      “More than 10 shops in Navan, Co Meath have already fallen prey to the mystery villan.”
      “Ross Villan, managing director of Anteon-VDS Korea, and Noel Adams, managing director of VDS, are responsible for the start-up of operations.”
villainess
  1. A female villain.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I love hissing the villainess as she works her evil wiles and cheering when she gets her eventual comeuppance.”
      “The character of Millie, Eder says, remains a villainess rivaled only by Lady Macbeth in all of English theater and film.”
      “McIntosh sees parallels with Lady Macbeth, the Shakespearean villainess who famously asked for male characteristics as she plotted murder.”
villainism
villainizations
  1. plural of villainization
villainesses
  1. plural of villainess
villian
  1. Misspelling of villain.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Jo glanced at the sheet and saw a pleasing illustration composed of a lunatic, a corpse, a villian, and a viper.”
      “Other stars filming in the area include Jude Law, who will play villian Vortigern, and Eric Bana as Arthur's father Uther Pendragon.”
villanies
  1. plural of villainy
  2. Examples:
    1. “You weeder and sower of villanies, and in especial their reaper.”
      “A professor,' he exclaims, 'and practise such villanies as these!”
villainies
  1. plural of villainy
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “One wonders, too, if he was a party to, participant indeed in, the villainies of Thomas J. Wise?”
      “He was opposed to slavery, and, I believe, called it the sum of all villainies.”
      “It had touched his villainies, too, with an imagination which made them the more atrocious.”
villains
  1. plural of villain
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The villains are truly dangerous and the heroes are valiant in word and deed.”
      “The disorientation is fitting because, startling as it now seems, wrecking was practiced not by rogues or villains but by unremarkable locals.”
      “The writers and the director deserve to keelhauled because of how they deal with villains.”
villans
  1. plural of villan
  2. Examples:
    1. “Bordars were reported on more than 90 per cent of estates, villans on about 60 per cent and freemen and sokemen on about 10 per cent of estates.”
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