He plays the villain in most of his movies.
She describes her first husband as a villain who treated her terribly.
Don't try to make me the villain. It's your own fault that you're having these problems.
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She's gone toe to toe with Marvel villains, T-rexes and Bill Murray.—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025 Race is one of many concerns in Vineland, but One Battle After Another sets itself apart as a studio film with vividly, absurdly ugly racist villains, arguing satirically but unflinchingly that white supremacy continues to be the guiding principle for American power.—Rory Doherty, Time, 26 Sep. 2025 Bio-tar, long a bioenergy villain, could turn into a goldmine!—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025 On Monday, the Superman director and DC Studios co-head seemingly revealed the villain in his follow-up movie with a photo of an X-ray vision of a person's brain.—Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for villain
Word History
Etymology
Middle English vilain, vilein, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin villanus, from Latin villa
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