Villain
noun
1.
a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel.
2.
a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot.
3.
villein.
noun
1.
a wicked or malevolent person
2.
(in a novel, play, film, etc) the main evil character and antagonist to the hero
3.
(often jocular) a mischievous person; rogue
4.
(Brit, police slang) a criminal
5.
(history) a variant spelling of villein
6.
(obsolete) an uncouth person; boor
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