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anti-villains

anti-villains is the plural of anti-villain.

Meaning of anti-villain

Noun

anti-villain (plural anti-villains)

  1. An antagonist who has or may have noble or honorable aims, but pursues them destructively.
    • As much the anti-hero initially as Thorpe is anti-villain, Tinley's function in the first volume is to expose to Catherine various modes of triviality and affectation.1994, Alistair M. Duckworth, The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, page 95

Questions about anti-villains

What is anti-villains the plural of?
Anti-villains is the plural of anti-villain.

Words near anti-villains in the dictionary

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  4. anti-Vietnamese
  5. anti-villain
  6. anti-villains
  7. anti-viral
  8. anti-virus
  9. anti-viruses
  10. anti-war
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