villainousness

noun

Definition of villainousnessnext
as in evil

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for villainousness
  1. evil
  2. villainy
  3. wickedness
  4. turpitude
  5. bad
  6. wrong
  7. evildoing
  8. ill
Noun
  • As the film’s wealthy Pennsylvania industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren, Pearce creates a psychologically penetrating portrait of a man who is by turns generous and predatory, inquisitive and closed off, someone who ultimately reveals himself to be capable of true evil.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The show felt joyously anarchic and kind of evil at the same time.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of evil
Noun
  • Star Wars Outlaws Welcome to a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
    Richard Newby, TIME, 5 Dec. 2024
  • In the first installment of the two-film Wicked story, which has broken box office records and taken over the internet since its release November 22, Bode’s portrayal of Nessa arguably tees up the character's complex villainy for the second installment.
    James Factora, Them, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of villainy
Noun
  • In his book, Maguire explored the origin of the Wicked Witch, and asks how much of her wickedness was imposed upon her by a cruel and deceptive society.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Was wickedness thrust upon Jon M. Chu’s movie adaptation of Wicked by the critics?
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of wickedness
Noun
  • These alienating qualities don’t hold Prophecy or its characters back; the Sisters’ moral turpitude drives both the empire and the intrigue forward.
    Emma Stefansky, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2024
  • The youth of chaos and moral turpitude has taken over the city.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of turpitude
Noun
  • Reports out of fall camp haven’t been super favorable to their offense, and while the defense will, again, be top-notch, a team with this bad of an offense cannot be trusted.
    Austin Mock, The Athletic, 19 Aug. 2024
  • The revenue could come from taxes on bads (pollution, for example) or on rents (including land and, above all, intellectual property).
    Martin Wolf, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2015
Definition of bad
Noun
  • This would be doing something to right the wrongs that laws such as the 1994 enacted.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The conflict between right and wrong is far less compelling, as Hegel understood, than the collision of sides with competing claims to legitimacy.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of wrong
Noun
  • And some will remember the evildoing of those who confected the Trump-Russia hoax, the obstructionist chicanery of the authors of the impeachment trial, and the questionable conduct of the Democratic candidate and his family in dubious financial endeavors in Ukraine and China.
    Conrad Black, National Review, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The greater the barriers to evildoing, the greater the chances of discouraging causal efforts and upping the ante for the determined cyber crooks.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
Definition of evildoing
Noun
  • However, even those who have suffered the ills of phylloxera remain proponents of francs de pied.
    Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2024
  • At some point, Mangione became focused on the ills of the healthcare industry — a theme that has resonated with many following the saga across the nation.
    Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of ill
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