noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
real
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Fats and sugars have revealed themselves as the real villains .
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But the real villain here is Jerry Lee Wilson, who messed it up for all of us.
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That, of course, is to stand reality on its head, since the industrialised nations are manifestly the real environmental villains .
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No, the real Windsor villain is none other than the holier-than-thou Prince Philip.
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The real villains of the piece are the motor manufacturers.
■ VERB
cast
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In the morning Ballesteros and Olazabal could have been cast as villains but after lunch they were to produce some irrepressible form.
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Had she cast him as the villain in her private emotional tangles?
play
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In his next film, Leap of Faith, a grim drama, he will play the villain , a conman evangelist.
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The birds rubbed shoulders with Danny De Vito - who plays Batmans arch villain the penguin.
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Travolta, who is riding high in Hollywood, takes a minor career risk by playing a villain .
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He could be like Alain Delon, playing high-quality villains - interesting, complex people.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Speed 2" stars Willem Dafoe as the villain who takes over a luxury cruise ship.
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At the end of the story, the villain is caught and punished.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the leading villain , of course, is the greedy oil industry, according to the conventional consumer bleat.
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Aristodemus went home and found himself ostracized, a national villain until he expiated his disgrace by dying a hero at Plataea.
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At the end she asks whether in all her stories she has been, not the heroine, but the villain .
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He became the best available villain for those who wished to fasten upon an individual to blame for Britain's plight.
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It searches for heroes in the knowledge that villains are thick on the ground.
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That, of course, is to stand reality on its head, since the industrialised nations are manifestly the real environmental villains.
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The villain is an investor who kills with such glee that he almost seems corny.
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You've assigned me the role of heartless villain financier, obsessed with money, wealth, and luxury.