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Answer for the clue "Over idle (anag) — villain ", 8 letters:
evildoer

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Word definitions for evildoer in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
evildoer \e"vil*do`er\ n. a person who performs an evil deed; one who sins (without repenting). Syn: sinner.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also evil-doer , late 14c., from evil (n.) + doer .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A person who performs evil acts.

Usage examples of evildoer.

And once he plotted with the Zulus to slaughter him, telling Dingaan that he was an evildoer and a wizard, who would bring a curse upon his land.

He guessed that Soto was just one of those naturals, an evildoer who came by because it was his nature.

When you and the Father of Curses unmasked the evildoer, Mohammed knew he would go to prison for helping the bad man.

Marius had cautioned us in no uncertain terms before he departed New Orleans that if we did not hunt the evildoer almost exclusively, we would very soon go mad.

But the idea of hunting the evildoer is one which I personally embraced for my own peace of mind.

I wondered how in the name of Heaven I would have the courage to feed upon the evildoer only, or to answer a prayer as Louis had just done.

The act of hu-manization is completed, and the evildoer no longer exists.

Space Patrol is being disbanded as of now until such time as another threat to the galaxy brings us forth to scour the evildoer from the stars and the space between the stars.

Bring those evildoers here that they may thank and praise me, who give them so merciful an end.

Doc Savage, it seemed, made a profession of righting wrongs and punishing evildoers in the far corners of the earth.

I ended by making these evildoers fear me even more than I feared them.

The chief of the evildoers was, of course, Lord Rotanxi, swearing hatred against all swordsmen, summoning a fire demon.

Doc Savage took no pay for punishing the evildoers and righting the wrongs, and Rhoda Haven doubted that, too.

Through her mind ran the legends of the feats he had performed, of his strange career of righting wrongs and punishing evildoers throughout the far corners of the earth.

Doc Savage and his little group were engaged in one of the most unusual of careers, that of righting wrongs and punishing evildoers, frequently in the far ends of the world.