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villainous

/vil-uh-nuhs/US // ˈvɪl ə nəs //UK // (ˈvɪlənəs) //

坏人,恶人,恶棍,反派

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having a cruel, wicked, malicious nature or character.
    • : of, relating to, or befitting a villain: villainous treachery.
    • : outrageously base, wicked, or vile: a villainous attack on his character.
    • : very objectionable or unpleasant; bad; wretched: a villainous storm.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.criminal

Examples

  • In one example, Han was approached by a marketing team working with Capcom’s “Resident Evil Village,” a horror-focused shooter starring the villainous vampire Lady Dimitrescu.

  • That failure becomes increasingly villainous when you know simple solutions like housing vouchers exist to reverse the most dire foundational crisis for poor Americans.

  • Villainy gets even more complicated as a concept when we consider that, historically, the “villain” in any given story is villainous not because of something they do but because of something they are.

  • It’s possible that a villainous Thunderbolts super-group could be in the works.

  • Set after the events of Half-Life, but before Half-Life 2, Alyx follows protagonist Alyx Vance as she attempts to rescue her father and uncover the secret of the villainous Combine’s newest weapon.

  • She is against the patriarchy, especially when personified in villainous ogres like the Duke of Deception.

  • There are big rocks in off the shore, craggy and black; they always look villainous in the dark of the evening.

  • So the man who plays the villainous Frank Underwood does have a lighter side after all.

  • Surely there will be villainous pirates, distracting mermaids, tides change in the new open water chapter of my journey.

  • And they face the absolute villain, Haman, from the absolute villainous family, Amalek.

  • Upon a ship sailing along the shores of France were a man and his wife on their way to join a band of villainous people in India.

  • He was concerned with the villainous intrigues of Cerizet, his copy-clerk, and with Theodose de la Peyrade, the tricky lawyer.

  • Remembering what a scoundrel Garcia was, and what a villainous business Garcia had sent him upon, Coronado felt like smiling.

  • Coronado's first bullet knocked a villainous-looking tatterdemalion clean into the happy hunting grounds.

  • Goaded to desperation by his villainous servant, Herbert Murray turned upon the traitor and hurled him down the gravel pit.