villainy
Characteristic of a villainCharacteristic of a villain.
» You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
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1 sensesCharacteristic of a villain.
Examples
4 sentencesYou will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
There’s foul play somewhere, and there’s black villainy brewing, to that I’ll swear!
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
I wondered vaguely what foul villainy it might be that the Morlocks did under the new moon.
Origin
From villain + -y.From villain + -y.
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Forms
more villainy, most villainy| Comparative | more villainy Lesson |
|---|---|
| Superlative | most villainy Lesson |
regular
Synonyms
2 synonymsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.