Antonyms for villain
ˈvɪl ənvil·lain

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1. villainnoun

   Synonyms:
   cad, knave, bad guy, rascal, scamp

2. villainnoun

   A vile, wicked person.

   Synonyms:
   knave, scamp, rascal, bad guy, cad

3. villainnoun

   The bad person in a work of fiction; often the main antagonist of the hero.

   Synonyms:
   knave, rascal, bad guy, cad, scamp

4. villainnoun

   A villain was in a low level of medieval serfdom. A cotter may have been lower.

   Synonyms:
   bad guy, knave, cad, scamp, rascal

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1. villain

   Synonyms:
   scoundrel, ruffian, wretch

Matched Categories

1. • Character
   • Unwelcome Person

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1. villain, scoundrelnoun

   a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately

   Synonyms:
   baddie, scoundrel

2. villain, baddienoun

   the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction

   Synonyms:
   baddie, scoundrel

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1. villainnoun

   Synonyms:
   scoundrel

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1. good person

   someone who helps

   a hero that safes the world

   Submitted by anonymous on November 19, 2019  

How to use villain in a sentence?

1. Judge Castel:

   Judge Castel's decision acknowledges what we have asserted from the beginning, that viewers of' When They See Us' believe that Defendants' utterly false and defamatory portrayal of Linda Fairstein as' a central villain' in' When They See Us' has a basis in truth, we are glad that Linda Fairstein now has the opportunity to pursue Linda Fairstein claims with respect to five critical scenes in the series that falsely depict Ms. Fairstein engaging in coercive and discriminatory conduct in order to build a case against innocent young men of color.

2. Shon Mehta:

   Maybe I am villain in your story, but I am hero in mine.

3. Alfred Hitchcock:

   In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.

4. Beilby Porteus, Death, A Poem:

   One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.

5. Agnes Repplier:

   A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.

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