villainy

Plural: villainies

Noun

• Wicked or criminal behavior; actions characteristic of a villain.
• the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior
• a criminal or vicious act
• Evil or wicked character or behaviour.
• A wicked or treacherous act.
• Ill-treatment, indignity, degrading or shameful treatment of someone.
• Disgrace, ignominy.
• The state of being a villein or serf, and by extension servitude or low estate in life.
• Boorishness, rudeness, bad cultivation or manners.

Adj

• Characteristic of a villain.

Examples

• His villainy in blocking the triple word score was strategically brilliant.

Synonyms

villainousness, atrociousness, awfulness, badness, corruption, corruptness, criminality, dacoity, depravity, enormity, evil, evilness, immorality, knavery, nefariousness, rascality, savagery, scoundrelry, scumminess, turpitude, vileness, villainhood, villainly, villainous, villainry, villainy, wickedness

Antonyms

dogoodery, good, goodness, heroism, virtue, virtuousness