Meaning of villainous in English
(Definition of villainous from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of villainous
villainous
A villainous computer from science-fiction lore captured the city-council chairmanship.
From TIME
But the problems are most often systemic, rather than comically villainous.
From Slate Magazine
He has to be the villain of the series without ever being villainous for a single moment.
From A.V. Club
The music he released was paranoid, icy, aggressive, and unusually villainous.
From The Verge
The main characters find themselves tangled in a villainous five-way standoff with past and potential future lovers.
There's been some attempts, but they aren't always villainous.
From Bloomberg
In a kid-targeted sci-fi setting that's notably inclusive, with as many friendly alien characters as villainous ones, the human rights situation for robots is horrifying.
From Slate Magazine
The notion that some individuals may have been so villainous as not to deserve burial is an ancient one.
From NPR
He says their union is a successful one -- even if they each condone the calculated and sometimes villainous acts the other commits.
From CBS News
Here are some contenders for the most villainous of all.
From Los Angeles Times
He's often leaned toward a villainous role, but it's always been ambiguous.
From VentureBeat
We need a villainous plan that will induce willing complicity of the general population in reducing their own effective fertility.
From Washington Post
But the end result was not so much that he was doing it for villainous reasons.
From Hollywood Reporter
When villainous ghosts threw furniture at me, my suit pulsed and vibrated.
From TIME
Actors take their roles very seriously, whether they are bursting into song or challenging the hero with a villainous cackle.
From Wired
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極悪非道の, 悪党の…
infâme…
alçak, zalim…
malvat, pervers…
schofterig…
شِرّير…
podlý…
slyngelagtig…
jahat…
ชั่วร้าย (ทางวรรณกรรม)…
côn đồ, hung ác…
nikczemny…
skurkaktig…
jahat…
schurkisch…
skurkaktig, ond…
악랄한…
підлий, лиходійський…
scellerato, infame, malvagio…
