Villainous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Villainous \Vil"lain*ous\, a. [Written also villanous.]
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     1. Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or
        wretch.
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     2. Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to
        a villain; as, a villainous action.
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     3. Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense. "A
        villainous trick of thine eye." --Shak.
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     {Villainous judgment} (O. E. Law), a judgment that casts
        reproach on the guilty person.
        [1913 Webster] --- {Vil"lain*ous*ly}, adv.
        {Vil"lain*ous*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  villainous
       adj : extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot";
             "a villainous band of thieves" [syn: {nefarious}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  121 Moby Thesaurus words for "villainous":
     abandoned, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base,
     beastly, beneath contempt, bent, black, blackguardly, blamable,
     blameworthy, brutal, contemptible, contrary, corrupt, criminal,
     crooked, damnable, dark, debased, degenerate, degraded, deplorable,
     despicable, detestable, dire, disgraceful, disgusting, dishonest,
     dissolute, dreadful, egregious, enormous, evil, execrable,
     faithless, felonious, fetid, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, foul,
     fulsome, grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid,
     improper, infamous, iniquitous, knavish, lamentable, loathsome,
     lousy, low, miscreant, monstrous, murderous, nasty, naughty,
     nefarious, noisome, notorious, objectionable, obnoxious, odious,
     offensive, outrageous, peccant, perfidious, perverse, perverted,
     pitiable, pitiful, profligate, putrid, rank, rascally, recreant,
     regrettable, reprehensible, reprobate, repulsive, roguish, rotten,
     sad, scampish, scandalous, schlock, scoundrelly, scurvy, shabby,
     shameful, shocking, shoddy, sinful, sordid, squalid, terrible,
     too bad, traitorous, treacherous, unclean, unforgivable,
     unpardonable, unscrupulous, unspeakable, unworthy, vicious, vile,
     wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong