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Meaning of "villainies" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF VILLAINIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VILLAINIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Villainies is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES VILLAINIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Villain

A villain is an "evil" character in a story, whether a historical narrative or, especially, a work of fiction. The villain usually is the antagonist, the character who tends to have a negative effect on other characters. A female villain is sometimes called a villainess. Random House Unabridged Dictionary defines villain as "a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel; or a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot".

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VILLAINIES

village idiot
village school
village-like
villager
villagery
villagisation
villagization
Villahermosa
villain
villainage
villainess
villainous
villainously
villainousness
villainy
villanage
villanella
villanelle
villanous
villanously

WORDS THAT END LIKE VILLAINIES

balconies
beanies
Brownies
bunnies
ceremonies
Colonies
companies
denies
destinies
funnies
grannies
ignominies
monies
mutinies
pennies
ponies
postliminies
scrutinies
testimonies
trannies

Synonyms and antonyms of villainies in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «VILLAINIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «villainies» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of villainies

Translation of «villainies» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VILLAINIES

Find out the translation of villainies to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of villainies from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «villainies» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

villainies
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

villanías
570 millions of speakers

English

villainies
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

villainies
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الخباثة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

злодеяний
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

vilanias
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

villainies
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

vilenies
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penjahat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schurkereien
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

villainies
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

villainies
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Villainies
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

villainies
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

villainies
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खलनायक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

villainies
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

villanie
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

villainies
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

злодіянь
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ticăloșii
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ατιμιών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

villainies
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

villainies
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

villainies
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of villainies

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VILLAINIES»

The term «villainies» is used very little and occupies the 158.977 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VILLAINIES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «villainies» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «villainies» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about villainies

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VILLAINIES»

Discover the use of villainies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to villainies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Vintage Vermont Villainies: True Tales of Murder and Mystery ...
Presents ten murder and two disappearance cases that took place in Vermont between 1874 and the mid-twentieth century, in a collection that features such perpetrators as Mary Rogers, who eliminated her husband by seducing a pair of brothers ...
John Stark Bellamy, 2007
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Villainies: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Proceeds from this book are used to expand the content and coverage of Websters Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org).
‎2008
3
Shakespeare as Prompter: The Amending Imagination and the ...
(Hamlet V. 1 .248) 'Being thus benetted round with villainies' (Hamlet V.2.29) Words from Pericles have just joined us: 'A whisper in the ears of death, Unheard. ' (III. 1.9) It would indeed be strangely artificial to hear the following phrase at a ...
Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard, 1994
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Basic Writings of Mo Tzu Hsun Tzu and Han Fei Tz
THE. EIGHT. VILLAINIES. (SECTION. 9). There are eight strategies which ministers customarily employ to work their villainy. The first is called "Making use of his bedfellows." What do I mean by this? The ruler is easily beguiled by lovely  ...
Burton Watson
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Hamlet
Being thus be-netted round with villainies, — Ere I could make a prologue to my brains, 30 22. ho/] hoe Qq. hoo, Ff, Rowe. 24. grinding] gringding Fa. 25. struck] Jirttcke Fa. Jirooke Qq. ttrook Cap. 27. me] now Qq, Pope+, Cap. Jen. Steev. Var.
William Shakespeare, 2001
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Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays: ...
The manuscript-corrector of the folio, 1732, changes "frame of" to fraud and — " Whose spirits toil in fraud and villainies," which seems a much more easy and natural expression than " frame of villainies ;" but in this way the commentators have ...
John Payne Collier, 1853
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The Presbyterian Expositor: A Monthly Periodical ...
The practice of slaveholding, we are told, is justly regarded as "the sum of all villainies." What is meant by " the practice of slaveholding?" The paper contains no explanation or qualification. It makes no reference to circumstances, as at all ...
Nathan Lewis Rice, 1859
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The Works: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of ...
At the same time, it must be admitted that “ in frame of villainies,” may mean in the fabrication of villainies. More doubt may be entertained as to the next, real or supposed, error of the press: it is in Leonato's indignant speech, where this couplet ...
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, 1853
9
Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays, ...
The manuscript-corrector of the folio, 1732, changes "frame of" to fraud and — " Whose spirits toil in fraud and villainies," which seems a much more easy and natural expression than " frame of villainies ;" but in this way the commentators have ...
John Payne Collier, 1853
10
Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays: ...
The manuscript-corrector of the folio, 1732, changes “frame of ” to fraud and—“ Whose spirits toil in fraud and villainies,” which seems a much more easy and natural expression than “ frame of villainies ;” but in this way the commentators have ...
John Payne Collier, Nicholas Esterhazy Stephen Armytage Hamilton, Thomas Duffus Hardy, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VILLAINIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term villainies is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Party Hard Gangsters of 60s London
The villainies of the Krays were well-known. So was their immunity. The police, the press were wary. They were Teflon Dons way before John Gotti. The writer ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
2
UN takes the fight to human trafficking
“Slavery, in both its ancient and modern forms, is not only shameful, it is as the abolitionist John Wesley said: 'The execrable sum of all villainies.' “[It] has no ... «The Citizen, Jul 15»
3
“It Started Like a Guilty Thing”: the Beginning of Hamlet and the …
What happens is that we are able to identify both King Hamlet and King Claudius as political villains whose villainies are exaggerations of the ideologies they ... «CounterPunch, Jul 15»
4
Whitaker: Flag debate increasing polarization
However, as was clear at the time, it was not that everyone suddenly agreed on the meaning of the flag or on the asserted villainies or virtues of the Confederacy ... «Jackson Clarion Ledger, Jul 15»
5
Greek Prime Minister Tsipras Quotes Sophocles: What Do Ancient …
... this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to ... «International Business Times, Jul 15»
6
Statesmanship by Committee
If the North insisted slavery was “the sum of all villainies,” admonished Virginia jurist John Brockenbrough, “then we may as well separate. We cannot live ... «First Things, Jun 15»
7
Calgary vapor users: kids are not the target
Nicole Janzen, a frequenter of Calgary vapor shops, said she also believes studies looking at youth smoking rates are being skewed to villainies shop owners ... «660 News, Apr 15»
8
Gandhi statue is vandalised as South Africans continue debate on …
... Queen Victoria and King George V. Each of these has been targeted for their own peculiar villainies, but perhaps Gandhi marked a new first: the vandalism of ... «Scroll.in, Apr 15»
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184 Years Ago Today, The Founder Of The African Methodist …
Methodists were against slavery, as founder John Wesley had called it “that execrable sum of all villainies.” After his master heard that on the Day of Judgment ... «Western Journalism, Mar 15»
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'Cinderella': Fairy tale movie takes over box office
Maleficent is a retelling of Sleeping Beauty from the point of view of the famous villainies and grossed $758.4 globally. Cinderella is also Branagh's biggest ... «Pulse Nigeria, Mar 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Villainies [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/villainies>. Apr 2024 ».
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