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Criminal’s nice house and home
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villain
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (rfc-sense) (rfquote-sense: en) A vile, wicked person. 2 # An extremely depraved person, or one capable or guilty of great crimes. 3 # A deliberate scoundrel. 4 The bad person in a work of fiction; often the main antagonist of the hero. vb. (context ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Villain \Vil"lain\, v. t. To debase; to degrade. [Obs.] --Sir T. More.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Villain was a wooden roller coaster at the Geauga Lake amusement park in Aurora , Ohio . It was designed by the now-defunct Custom Coasters International (CCI). The ride opened as a part of the four-coaster expansion Six Flags brought to Geauga Lake between ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300 (late 12c. as a surname), "base or low-born rustic," from Anglo-French and Old French vilain "peasant, farmer, commoner, churl, yokel" (12c.), from Medieval Latin villanus "farmhand," from Latin villa "country house, farm" (see villa ).\nThe most ...
Usage examples of villain.
Here am I with a pack of villains on my hands and no way to convict them of tinkering with the water adjutages, let alone treason!
Had he been able to state his mind, Asey thought as he started to inch around the side of the house, the doctor would undoubtedly have expressed some sardonic sentiment about Two - gun Blaney about to pounce on his villain, and added something about his own personal preference for staying well in the background on all such occasions.
The villain probably intended that her identity as the famous authoress would be revealed when the two of you were discovered in the morning.
You seek the return of the gold that was seized off Bonanza in August of 1690 and that is believed to be in the hands of the band of thieves and pirates led by the villain Jack Shaftoe.
However, I did not wait to be pelted, but shut myself in my room and lay down on the bed, only sorry that I had not choked the villain outright.
By: John Mortimer Category: Fiction Mystery Synopsis: Dunster hero or villain?
Oh, and the fact that Stephen is a whoremaster, Georgio is not as white as he likes everyone to think, and Nuala is still seeing that fecking villain of hers.
Why should she believe anything he said if it meant accepting that her fiancé was a black-hearted villain and murderer?
Dead or not, a gangland villain was treated by the police a little bit differently to a fellow officer.
All of his imaginings had pictured either Gime, Del Ling, Old Dan, or even the girl, Kateen MacRoy, in the role of villain, perhaps mastermind.
Those low villains rendered a stay in Vienna very unpleasant to foreigners, and it was a matter of the greatest difficulty to gratify the slightest natural want without running the risk of being annoyed.
At this I seized the impudent villain by the throat, and pinning him against the wall with a strong hand I would have broken his head with the butt of my pistol, if the landlord had not prevented me.
A villain who died whilst I was under the Leads had passed thirty-seven years in The Wells, and he was forty-four when sentenced.
I was humbled by being forced to confess to myself that chance and chance alone had saved me from becoming a villain.
She had wit, learning without pretension, taste, and a great hatred for the King of Prussia, whom she called a villain.