villainousness

noun

Definition of villainousnessnext
as in evil

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for villainousness
  1. evil
  2. villainy
  3. wickedness
  4. turpitude
  5. bad
  6. wrong
  7. evildoing
  8. ill
Noun
  • All our sufferings must therefore be lesser evils that somehow serve to bring about a greater good.
    Anthony Gottlieb, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
  • It was seen as a temporary evil while balancing between the West and the Soviet Union.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of evil
Noun
  • Today, traditional notions of villainy have been replaced by complex, sometimes paradoxical, standards of what different groups find acceptable or threatening.
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Of course, not all villainy was created equal this year.
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of villainy
Noun
  • Less familiar is the part that his American wife, Fanny Stevenson (née Van de Grift), played in juicing up the story’s plot to establish Edward Hyde’s wickedness early on.
    Tobias Grey, airmail.news, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Burkhart’s wickedness is more intimate, more complex, more human.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of wickedness
Noun
  • But in the mid-1800s sentiment around lotteries had begun to nosedive in the U.S. as concerns rose about their moral turpitude and by the end of the century, Congress outlawed the shipment of lottery tickets across state lines, ending most sales.
    Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025
  • These alienating qualities don’t hold Prophecy or its characters back; the Sisters’ moral turpitude drives both the empire and the intrigue forward.
    Emma Stefansky, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of turpitude
Noun
  • Reports out of fall camp haven’t been super favorable to their offense, and while the defense will, again, be top-notch, a team with this bad of an offense cannot be trusted.
    Austin Mock, The Athletic, 19 Aug. 2024
  • The revenue could come from taxes on bads (pollution, for example) or on rents (including land and, above all, intellectual property).
    Martin Wolf, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2015
Definition of bad
Noun
  • If Cooper had a meaningful chance to right his Michigan wrongs in a postseason tournament?
    Jason Lloyd, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Those states, along with my firm, Alliance Defending Freedom, asked the Supreme Court to right the wrongs of the lower courts.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Definition of wrong
Noun
  • And some will remember the evildoing of those who confected the Trump-Russia hoax, the obstructionist chicanery of the authors of the impeachment trial, and the questionable conduct of the Democratic candidate and his family in dubious financial endeavors in Ukraine and China.
    Conrad Black, National Review, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The greater the barriers to evildoing, the greater the chances of discouraging causal efforts and upping the ante for the determined cyber crooks.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
Definition of evildoing
Noun
  • At the center of these ills stands the island’s relationship with the mainland.
    Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The strict binary of this is man, this is woman has been responsible for a lot of ills.
    Lanna Apisukh, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of ill
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