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7 definitions found for villainous

WordNet (r) 3.0
villainous adj 1: extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves" [syn: nefarious, villainous]

Oxford English Reference Dictionary
villainous
adj.
1 characteristic of a villain; wicked.
2 colloq. abominably bad; vile (villainous weather).
Derivatives:
villainously adv. villainousness n.

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
villainous A villainous person is very bad and willing to harm other people or break the law in order to get what he or she wants. ...her villainous father. ADJ: usu ADJ n

English Explanatory Dictionary
villainous ˈvɪlənəs adj. 1 characteristic of a villain; wicked. 2 colloq. abominably bad; vile (villainous weather). øøvillainously adv. villainousness n.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Villainous Vil"lain*ous, a. [Written also villanous.] 1. Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch. 2. Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action. 3. Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense. ``A villainous trick of thine eye.'' --Shak. Villainous judgment (O. E. Law), a judgment that casts reproach on the guilty person. --- Vil"lain*ous*ly, adv. Vil"lain*ous*ness, n.

English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms)
villainous ˈvɪlənəs adj. 1 treacherous, perfidious, dishonest, unscrupulous, traitorous, corrupt, faithless, criminal, felonious, murderous, Colloq crooked, bent: Few activities are more villainous than being a double agent. 2 See vile, 1, above.

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "villainous": abandoned, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beneath contempt, bent, black, blackguardly, blamable, blameworthy, brutal, contemptible, contrary, corrupt, criminal, crooked, damnable, dark, debased, degenerate, degraded, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, disgraceful, disgusting, dishonest, dissolute, dreadful, egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, faithless, felonious, fetid, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, improper, infamous, iniquitous, knavish, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, low, miscreant, monstrous, murderous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, peccant, perfidious, perverse, perverted, pitiable, pitiful, profligate, putrid, rank, rascally, recreant, regrettable, reprehensible, reprobate, repulsive, roguish, rotten, sad, scampish, scandalous, schlock, scoundrelly, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sinful, sordid, squalid, terrible, too bad, traitorous, treacherous, unclean, unforgivable, unpardonable, unscrupulous, unspeakable, unworthy, vicious, vile, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong




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