Thesaurus:villainy

Thesaurus

villainy

English

Noun

Sense: evil or vicious character or behaviour

Synonyms

• atrociousness
• awfulness
• badness    [⇒ thesaurus]
• corruption
• corruptness
• criminality
• dacoity
• depravity
• enormity
• evil    [⇒ thesaurus]
• evilness
• immorality
• knavery
• nefariousness
• rascality
• savagery
• scoundrelry
• scumminess
• turpitude
• vileness
• villainhood
• villainousness
• villainry
• villainy
• wickedness

Antonyms

• dogoodery
• good    [⇒ thesaurus]
• goodness    [⇒ thesaurus]
• heroism
• virtue
• virtuousness

Hyponyms

• mischief    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “940. improbity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “villainy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.