Thesaurus: villain

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1. n. One who holds lands by a base, or class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/servile">servile, class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/tenure">tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant.
2. n. A baseborn or clownish person; a boor.
3. n. A vile, wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and capable or guilty of great crimes; a deliberate scoundrel; a knave; a rascal; a scamp.
4. a. Villainous.
5. v. t. To debase; to degrade.
6. n. a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately
7. n. the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction
8. 1. (class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/feudal">Feudal Law) One who holds lands by a base, or class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/servile">servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant. [In this sense written also villan, and villein.] If any of my ansectors was a tenant, and a servant, and held his lands as a villain to his lord, his posterity also must do so, though accidentally they become noble. Jer. Taylor. Note: Villains were of two sorts; villains regardant, that is, annexed to the manor (LL. adscripti glebæ); and villains in gross, that is, annexed to the person of their lord, and transferable from one to another. Blackstone. 2. A baseborn or clownish person; a boor. [R.] Pour the blood of the villain in one basin, and the blood of the gentleman in another, what difference shall there be proved Becon. 3. A vile, wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and capable or guilty of great crimes; a deliberate scoundrel; a knave; a rascal; a scamp. Like a villain with a smiling cheek. Shak. Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix. Pope. Villainous. [R.] Shak. To debase; to degrade. [Obs.] Sir T. More.
9. One who holds lands by a base, or class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/servile">servile, class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/tenure">tenure, or invillenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant.[In this sense written also villan, and villein.]If any of my ansectors was a tenant, and a servant, and held hislands as a villain to his lord, his posterity also must do so, thoughaccidentally they become noble. Jer. Taylor.
10. n:100 n. a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately n. the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction