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villain
[ vil-uhn ]
noun
- a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel.
Synonyms: , , , ,
- a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot.
- a person or thing considered to be the cause of something bad:
Fear is the villain that can sabotage our goals.
villain
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noun
- a wicked or malevolent person
- (in a novel, play, film, etc) the main evil character and antagonist to the hero
- humorous.a mischievous person; rogue
- slang:police.a criminal
- history a variant spelling of villein
- obsolete.an uncouth person; boor
Derived Forms
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Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of villain1
Example Sentences
After Trump's tariff about-face on Wednesday, several White House officials – including Treasury Secretary Bessent - were quick to say that Trump's goal was to drop the hammer on the real villain, China.
“People have said it looks like I’m always up to something, so I get to play villains. My mother doesn’t get it at all.â€
In one dramatic example, MGM in 2011 digitally scrubbed a remake of the movie “Red Dawn†to delete all traces of Chinese villains.
It can now represent a librarian, adjunct professor or social worker, all of whom make little more than McDonald’s wages, but are the cultural villains of the great Republican morality play.
Such side-switching set him up as a hero and villain to both sides of the politician divide, giving him a unique appeal.
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