villainy

Meaning

Noun

1. (uncountable) Evil or wicked character or behaviour.
2. (countable) A wicked or treacherous act.
3. (obsolete, uncountable) Ill-treatment, indignity, degrading or shameful treatment of someone.
4. (obsolete, uncountable) Disgrace, ignominy.
5. (obsolete, uncountable) The state of being a villein or serf, and by extension servitude or low estate in life.
6. (obsolete, uncountable) Boorishness, rudeness, bad cultivation or manners.

Adj

Characteristic of a villain.

Synonyms

wickedness

roguery

depravity

vice

villainousness

knavery

vileness

outrage

trickery

meanness

rascality

baseness

scurrility

viciousness

evil deed

crime

sinisterness

badness

fraud

turpitude

unrighteousness

villain

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wantonness

bad deed

serious crime

malignity

evil

felony

mischievous

misdeed

nefariousness

scoundrelism

scurviness

sin

sordidness

abjectness

atrocity

base

cheapness

contemptible

crimes

dirty trick

infamy

insidiousness

lowness

mean

mischief

abjection

treachery

vulgarity

wiles

wrongdoing

ugly thing

evil deeds

vile act

Translations

villanía

Gemeinheit

abjection

bassesse

Niedertracht

infamie

Schlechtigkeit

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: vileinie

In summary

From Middle English vileinie, vileynye, from Anglo-Norman vilenie, from Old French vilanie.