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villain

[vil-uhn] / ˈvɪl ən /


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“She was a sort of villain who you related to and rooted for,” said writer Rachel Lipman, who joined the show as the first season was coming together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

It is easy in retrospect to turn Edison into a rent-seeking villain protecting his investment in DC.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Given all the suffering I’d seen, I had expected my medbed search to end with a villain.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Thanks to skirmishes with Bordeaux-Begles in the Champions Cup, Pollock has pantomime villain status in the country.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

If there were such a goddess in a book of olden tales, she would be the villain, tormenting the innocent from her high castle.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

He has played gangsters, soldiers, policemen, politicians, patriots, villains, comic characters and tragic figures, while moving between Hindi and Marathi cinema and sometimes also working behind the camera as a director and writer.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Mr. Barnett, who has written adaptations of “The Three Billy Goats Gruff” and “Rumpelstiltskin,” is clearly steeped in the grand tradition of fairy-tale villains getting their comeuppance without apology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Wicked they may be, but these villains have artistic sensibilities and impeccable taste.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Tech CEOs, mimicking the villains of sci-fi, are telling the public that resistance is futile.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

"Yeah, villains always think they're doing things for the greater good."

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda




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