villainous
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| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —adj | |
| 1. | of, like, or appropriate to a villain |
| 2. | very bad or disagreeable: a villainous climate |
| 'villainously | |
| —adv | |
| 'villainousness | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
Here the little one was rescued from the villainous designs of the scoundrel.
To the left-leaning, she is a villainous milk-snatcher and persecutor of unionised labour.
We took a neutral stand on moral issues that encouraged villainous regimes to commit genocide.
These villainous companies that consistently put their private financial interest ahead of the interest of all of humanity.
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