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Discover LudwigThe word "villainous" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a person, action, or thing that is wicked, malicious, or cruel. For example, "The villainous criminal committed terrible acts of violence."
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villainous
adjective
Of, relating to, or appropriate to a villain
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Ralph is a villain who lacks the villainous gene, a heavy who dreams of lightness.
"If you are supposed to be villainous and have some sort of agenda I like the idea of delivering that kind of character in a perfectly well-mannered way".
Set at Wentworth Detention Centre, it found the all-female inmates – led by "Queen" Bea – engaged in a struggle for supremacy with villainous guards including Vera "Vinegar Tits" Bennett and Joan "The Freak" Ferguson.
Andrewsarchus – a big, prehistoric mammalian carnivore that resembled the villainous Gmork from The Neverending Story – is not a household name despite its apparent ferocity, and the shovel-tusked elephants and bear dogs of the age of mammals have not inspired a "Miocene Park" film franchise.
According to reports, she lives at Candyland, a sort of pre-civil war deep south gentlemen's club populated by women who are forced into sex by their owner, Leonardo DiCaprio's villainous Calvin Candie, and his henchmen.
She will play Ms Delphox, a villainous banker with a dark secret.
Exploration of half-shades isn't part of Tarantino's mission statement – though the opening scene of Inglourious Basterds (with Waltz as a villainous "Jew hunter") at least invited audiences to consider the possibility that they would give up Jewish fugitives to save their own skins.
Moreover, Hawes is playing a banker, the most consensually villainous occupation in the modern world.
His foes are suitably villainous: a crooked official with a marble-floored mansion, in league, naturally, with a fleshy European arms dealer.All great fun, but whizz-bang special effects cost money, which African film-makers tend to lack.
Big supermarkets such as the villainous Walmart offer a wider range of high-quality goods at lower prices than any corner store.
A virtuous, gold-plated knight challenges the villainous Typhon, an ape-like figure who is fawned upon by fairly repulsive but beautifully painted women representing sickness, madness and death (Typhon's daughters), and temptations such as lewdness, lust and excess.
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