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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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Strangely enough, Anthony Hopkins reckons he's only played two true movie villains in his distinguished acting career: some guy who eats people and Ted Crawford, the brilliant engineer who plots the perfect murder alibi in the new suspenser "Fracture.
When the Cold War ended and nobody wanted to see thrillers about Russian spies or KGB agents, international terrorists and drug dealers became our two favorite movie villains, and after 9/11 both Washington and Hollywood decided to make terrorists public enemy No.
FROM iconic movie villains like Gordon Gekko to real-life bad guys like Ken Lay, Americans have had it with corporate scoundrels.
 
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