Villainous
['vɪlənəs]
Definition
(a.) Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch.
(a.) Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action.
(a.) Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense.
Checker: Sherman
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Base, knavish, depraved, infamous,[See RASCAL]
Edited by Harold
Examples
- In Marseilles that day there was a villainous prison. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- There were ten men, swarthy, sun-tanned, villainous looking fellows. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- And when,' said Mr. Pickwick--'when is this villainous design to be carried into execution--when is this elopement to take place? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Look at his eye--for all the world like a villainous sort of black currant. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Some twenty souls in all there were, fifteen of them rough and villainous appearing seamen. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
Edited by Harold