Villainy

Quick meaning: Villainy is a noun meaning (uncountable) Evil or wicked character or behaviour.

Meaning

(uncountable) Evil or wicked character or behaviour.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A wicked or treacherous act.
2. (uncountable, obsolete) Ill-treatment, indignity, degrading or shameful treatment of someone.
3. (uncountable, obsolete) Disgrace, ignominy.
4. (uncountable, obsolete) The state of being a villein or serf, and by extension servitude or low estate in life.
5. (uncountable, obsolete) Boorishness, rudeness, bad cultivation or manners.
6. Characteristic of a villain.

Example Sentences

We are all villainy— very villainy, as I am a Christian man.

Yet here, actual reality offers you the worst villain ever and you say, sorry, he is too villainy.

Apparently, in both domestic and foreign movies, you can't get too villainy to displease an audience.

Mos Eisley spaceport- you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

Word Forms

• villainies

Synonyms for villainy

Depending on context, synonyms include atrociousness, awfulness, badness, corruption, corruptness, criminality.

Antonyms for villainy

Common opposites include dogoodery, good, goodness, heroism, virtue, virtuousness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include villainousness, villainry, villainhood, evilness, wickedness, devilishness.

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