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"word": "rascality"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:villainy",
"word": "scoundrelry"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:villainy",
"word": "turpitude"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:villainy",
"word": "vileness"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:villainy",
"word": "villainhood"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:villainy",
"word": "villainousness"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:villainy",
"word": "villainry"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:villainy",
"word": "villainy"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:villainy",
"word": "wickedness"
}
],
"word": "villainy"
}
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"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms suffixed with -y",
"English terms with audio links",
"en:Narratology"
],
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],
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"tags": [
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]
},
{
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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{
"ref": "1839, Robert Folkestone Williams, The Youth of Shakspeare",
"text": "We are all villainy— very villainy, as I am a Christian man.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1993, William Froug, Screenwriting Tricks of the Trade, page 51",
"text": "Apparently, in both domestic and foreign movies, you can't get too villainy to displease an audience.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2019, Greg Gutfeld, The Gutfeld Monologues, page 166",
"text": "Yet here, actual reality offers you the worst villain ever and you say, sorry, he is too villainy.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"word": "villainly"
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{
"word": "villainous"
}
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