Crossword-Solution: VILLAINOUS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Villainous | a. | Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch. |
| Villainous | a. | Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action. |
| Villainous | a. | Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “VILLAINOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Given to scurvy tricks. | 1 answer |
| Like a villain | 4 answers |
| felonious | 15 answers |
| praetorian | 17 answers |
| treasonable | 22 answers |
| blasphemous | 26 answers |
| mendacious | 27 answers |
| unbased | 29 answers |
| Tainted | 31 answers |
| unloving | 31 answers |
| unfactual | 34 answers |
| Venal | 37 answers |
| Unauthentic | 43 answers |
| unspeakable | 56 answers |
| Nefarious | 65 answers |
| Wicked | 92 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with VILLAINOUS (5)
This familiar that I called out of my own soul, and sent forth alone to do his good pleasure, was a being inherently malign and villainous; his every act and thought centred on self; drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another; relentless like a man of stone.
The Jew was always portrayed as a villainous merchant, shifty-eyed, large-nosed, unscrupulous, and wealthy.
The other officers were coarse, illiterate fellows, but little above the villainous crew they bullied, and were only too glad to avoid social intercourse with the polished English noble and his lady, so that the Claytons were left very much to themselves.
Could he leave her here to be abused, possibly murdered, by the villainous old Arab? No! But, on the other hand, could he take her into the jungle with him? What could he accomplish burdened by a weak and frightened girl? She would scream at her own shadow when the moon came out upon the jungle night and the great beasts roamed, moaning and roaring, through the darkness.
The high object of our mission, the consciousness that it was unselfish and chivalrous, the villainous character of our opponent, all added to the sporting interest of the adventure.
Quotes with VILLAINOUS (3)
The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere, scientifically considered, was no better than a villainous miasma
I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pretty villainous creature. I think that one of the things that male patriarchal figure has done is, allowed under it's, his church, his wing, all kinds of corruptions and villainies to grow and fester. In the name of that God terrible wars have been waged, in the name of that God terrible sexism has been allowed to spread. There are children being born all acro…
We are the voices in the shadows, Between the light and shade, Betwixt life and restful death, In the dark periphery of the unseen. We’re here, At the edges. We are the villainous punished, The innocent murdered or abandoned, Our lives ended by foul means, or unspeakable deeds. We are your lovers long gone; your siblings forsaken. Can you hear us? At the edges From the Foreword of Cautionary Tales - by Emmanuelle de Maupassant
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1953).