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Villain
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VILLAIN., An epithet used to cast contempt and contumely on the person to whom it is applied.
     2. To call a man a villain in a letter written to a third person, will entitle him to an action without proof of special damages. 1 Bos. & Pull. 331.
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Defense spending has been on the increase, but it is not the main villain in this piece.
The politics of profligacy by Hoar, William P. / The New American
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He does this against a backdrop not of history at its grimmest or journalism at its most intense, but of jokes, mockery, bouts of wordplay (a State Department bureaucrat is a "desk-limpet," an Arab potentate has lips that are "oyster-moist from a lifetime's contact with the greatest delicacies the world [has] to offer"), and puns that teeter on the edge of catastrophe: The repressive Arab kingdom that is--along, naturally, with France--the main villain of this book goes by the name of Wasabia.
Queen of the desert by Stuttaford, Andrew / National Review
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