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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Of course, everyone has their own favorite Bond villain.—EW.com, 24 May 2025 But the new villain is smarter than the IMF assumed, and the mission has disastrous results.—Keith Langston, People.com, 24 May 2025 Perhaps this is why it was never required viewing in my household; there was no darker notion than our hero potentially being a villain.—Tyler Foggatt, New Yorker, 24 May 2025 The first act is genuinely atrocious, a mess of story threads revolving around an uninteresting villain in the AI Entity that feels far too downbeat and sad for this franchise.—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 23 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for villain
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Etymology
Middle English vilain, vilein, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin villanus, from Latin villa
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