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Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch.

Having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; in a legal sense, done with intent to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide. O thievish Night, Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars Milton. -- Fe*lo"ni`ous*ly, adv. -- Fe*lo"n…

Like or characteristic of a knave; given to knavery; trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish fellow, or a knavish trick. "Knavish politicians." Macaulay.

Wicked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously villainous; execrable; detestably vile.

be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable. That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Shak.

forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another. The most villainous house in all the London road. Shak.

Corruption; cause of corruption. [Archaic] Villainous company hath been the spoil of me. Shak.

Villainous. [Obs.] "Vileyns sinful deeds make a churl." Chaucer.

Villainous. [R.] Shak.

The quality or state of being a villain, or villainous; extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as, the villainy of the seducer. "Lucre of vilanye." Chaucer. The commendation is not in his wit, but in his villainy. Shak.

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