villainnoun/ˈvɪl.ən/

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  A vile, wicked person.

  • Oh moſt pernicious woman! / Oh Villaine, Villaine, ſmiling damned Villaine!
  • Thou ly’ſt thou ſhagge-ear’d Villaine.
• 2

  A vile, wicked person.

• 3

  A vile, wicked person.

• 4

  derogatoryarchaicA low-born, abject person.

  • Note the preſumption of this Scythian ſlaue: I tel thee villaine, thoſe that lead my horſe Haue to their names tytles of dignitie, And dar’ſt thou bluntly cal me Baiazeth?
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  fictionliteraturemediaA character who has the role of being bad, especially antagonizing the hero; an antagonist who is also evil or malevolent.

  • Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
  • As The Dark Knight Rises brings a close to Christopher Nolan’s staggeringly ambitious Batman trilogy, it’s worth remembering that director chose The Scarecrow as his first villain—not necessarily the most popular among the comic’s gallery of rogues, but the one who set the tone for entire series. […] But in the underground tunnel system, a powerful new villain emerges in Bane (Tom Hardy), a bulked-out mercenary in a gas mask who may look and speak like a professional wrestler, but who carries out a thoroughly considered plan to isolate Gotham and impose his own sadistic vision of government upon it.
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  card-gamespokerAny opponent player, especially a hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare: hero (“the current player”).

  • Let's discuss how to play if you are the chip leader (that is, if you have more chips than all the villains).

villainverb/ˈvɪl.ən/

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  obsoleteTo debase; to degrade .

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• villein