The villain of the piece

Definition

villain /'vÇlǝn/ n ၁။ (က) လူဆိုး။ He's no saint, but he's no villain either. (ခ) ( Brit sl ) (ေရွး) အကံင။ မုဒိမ္း။ တႏၲ။ ရာဇဝတ္သား။ The police have caught the villains who broke into an old people's home. ၂။ လူၾကမ္း။ a pantomime/tragic villain. Compare HERO ❏ the villain of the piece [ IDM ] ( esp joc ) က်ဴးလြန္သူ။ လက္သည္။ It is hard to identify the real villain of the piece in such a situation. ❏ villainous /'vÇlǝnǝs/ adj ယုတ္မာေသာ။ ယုတ္ကန္း ေသာ။ He plays the part of the villainous Captain Hook. ❏ villainy n [U,C] ( fml ) ဆိုးညစ္မႈ။ ယုတ္မာမႈ။

Examples

1. ‘They have characters and plots
2. heroes and villains.’
3. ‘In Orwell's novel 1984
4. Big Brother is the evil villain.’
5. ‘Chaucer was great
6. the villain was definitely evil
7. and the jousting/action scenes were very well done.’
8. ‘‘It is a thriller where the main villain is not a person but AIDS itself
9. ’ says Mr. Sarup.’
10. ‘A normal thriller would have a villain
11. ready to strike at any moment and a hero in hot pursuit of the truth that will set him or her free.’
12. ‘Ripley is the ambiguous
13. charming villain in Patricia Highsmith's iconic series of novels who has fascinated readers since he first appeared in 1955.’
14. ‘This is a line that is greatly overused in action movies where an evil villain has plotted to take over the world… or whatever.’
15. ‘Sir Andrew describes the character as ‘one of the best villains in Victorian fiction’.’
16. ‘The plot involves three villains who inveigle a girl into prostitution in order to make ends meet.’
17. ‘To intensify the tragedy of King Lear
18. Shakespeare has not one but two tragic characters and four villains.’
19. ‘Voldermort is the evil villain in the novel
20. the murderer of Harry's parents
21. and the creature who plans to kill Harry.’
22. ‘While Woodward would gladly play the role of pantomime villain this summer when he takes his Lions to New Zealand
23. he is not so keen to have the boos and hisses directed at his players.’
24. ‘Are all of Shakespeare's villains ' motives intelligible?’
25. ‘Wevers believes Iago is the most evil of his villains.’
26. ‘In the James Bond thriller On Her Majesty's Secret Service a villain dies horribly when he pitches on to a toboggan run and slides to the bottom - by which time he is hamburger.’
27. ‘This ancestry may also account for the difficulty of explaining the motives of Shakespeare's villains.’
28. ‘For this act he inherited the role of pantomime villain and was booed roundly every time he touched the ball from then on.’
29. ‘Of course the evil plot that the villain finally springs in the third act makes no particular sense.’
30. ‘There's even a Hollywood feature film in production
31. featuring Ben Kingsley as evil villain the Hood
32. and due for release sometime next year.’
33. ‘John Lawton writes spy novels in which the spies are villains
34. and there's no doubt about it.’