villainous

Speech parts

1. villainous - Adjective

2. villainous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch.

Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action.

Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

nefarious satanic infernal base crooked damned rotten naughty villainy mean bad criminal evil wrong corrupt
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Antonyms

virgin august immaculate white right just
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Phrases with the word

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Examples

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too. Ryan Reynolds

INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime. Ambrose Bierce

How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes. Mercedes Lackey

I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected. Kevin Spacey

If you are supposed to be villainous and have some sort of agenda, I like the idea of delivering that kind of character in a perfectly well-mannered way. Bill Nighy

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous. Charlaine Harris

Close letter words and terms

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