Villain
['vɪlən]
Definition
(noun.) a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately.
(noun.) the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction.
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Definition
(n.) One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant.
(n.) A baseborn or clownish person; a boor.
(n.) A vile, wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and capable or guilty of great crimes; a deliberate scoundrel; a knave; a rascal; a scamp.
(a.) Villainous.
(v. t.) To debase; to degrade.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Rascal, knave, scoundrel, rogue, scamp, reprobate, scapegrace, miscreant, caitiff, vile wretch.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Scoundrel, ruffian, wretch,[See WATCHFUL]
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Definition
n. a wicked wretch: a man extremely degraded: in feudal times a member of the lowest class of unfree persons.—ns. Vill′aināge Vill′anāge Vill′eināge Vill′enāge in feudal times the tenure of land by villein i.e. base or menial services.—adj. Vill′ainous like or suited to a villain: depraved: proceeding from extreme depravity: very bad mean vile.—adv. Vill′ainously.—ns. Vill′ainousness; Vill′ainy the act of a villain: extreme depravity: an atrocious crime.
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Examples
- See the old villain bound with ropes. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Oh, you little un-grate-ful, mur-de-rous, hor-rid villain! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Out with the prating villain! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Yet, to the best of my knowledge, no word of our real plans has reached the villain's ear. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The staple to which my chains were fixed, was more rusted than I or the villain Abbot had supposed. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- His father must have been a most consummate villain, ever to have such a son. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- That villain Alcibiades is getting ready for another assault. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Had I not been armed in proof, the villain had marked me down seven times with as little remorse as if I had been a buck in season. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- We have had our eyes upon this Mr. Milverton for some time, and, between ourselves, he was a bit of a villain. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Come on, you young villain! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- You villain, you mean, mean, mean villain, I would have lost fifty diamonds, rather than see your face lying to me, as I see it lying now! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Think of that, you villain, you villain! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Come back, you young villain! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The circumcised villain blasphemeth the holy church, and Christian men listen and rebuke him not! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Theresa was always my friend, for she loved Mary and hated this villain almost as much as I did. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- And how short while would these rabble villains stand to endure your encounter! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I do not know, said the man, what the custom of the English may be; but it is the custom of the Irish to hate villains. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I expect little aid from their hand, said Front-de-Boeuf, unless we were to hurl them from the battlements on the heads of the villains. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It's evidently the same villains who broke into Acton's. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- And when the culprits came before the dais,--How comes it, villains! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The villains, he said, the base treacherous villains, to desert me at this pinch! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- One of the wig-making villains lathered my face for ten terrible minutes and finished by plastering a mass of suds into my mouth. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Yaas, to be sure I do, drawled Lord Ingram; and the poor old stick used to cry out 'Oh you villains childs! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Pin the villains to the earth with my lance, Wamba, if they offered us any impediment. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately implicated in the matter. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The Damascenes are the ugliest, wickedest looking villains we have seen. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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