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(n)
A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a person without honor or virtue.
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(adj)
Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child).
A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
(often diminutively) A cheeky person or creature; a troublemaker.
Someone who betrays, or reveals confidential information; a squealer or informer.
(obsolete) A criminal, a villain.
The person or thing at fault for a problem or crime.
A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.
A terrifying and dangerous creature, especially one of an imaginary or mythical kind.
A mob; a disorderly crowd.
Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.
A rough or violent youth.
An enemy.
A fugitive from the law.
Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
A violent, aggressive, or truculent person.
(informal) Marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior, as fetishism, sadomasochism, and other sexual practices.
A member of a criminal or street gang.
(informal) Something nasty.
One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.
(crime) A person who robs.
Anything that is dirty.
(countable) One who engages in sexual intercourse, particularly:
An unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person.
(now chiefly in the plural form means, also in a singular sense) A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
Something that is bad; a harm or evil.
(archaic, literary) Destitute of kindness; unnatural.
A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
(slang) A contemptible person or thing.
One who has behaved badly, or illegally.
A very evil person.
A person who performs evil acts.
(dated) A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person.
(criminal law) A person who has committed a felony (“serious criminal offence”); specifically, one who has been tried and convicted of such a crime.
A criminal or felon.
(authorship) The main character or force opposing the protagonist in a literary work or drama.
(colloquial) A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, an addict, etc.
One rejected by God; a sinful person.
One who perpetrates; especially, one who commits an offence or crime.
Someone who does wrong, whether morally, ethically, or in contravention of a law.
(dated, chiefly of men) An unprincipled, contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.
(informal) a villain, particularly an antagonist in a story.
Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean.
(of any physical thing) Having great weight.
(uncountable) Evil or wicked character or behaviour.
(obsolete) A rascal; a scoundrel.
A venomous snake in the family Viperidae.
(Scotland) A contemptible person; a vile, venomous, or loathsome individual.
A bad or wicked person.
A lesser or subsidiary villain.
Alternative form of viliaco. [(obsolete) A rascal; a scoundrel.]
An evil supernatural spirit.
(informal) Synonym of monster of the week.
(neologism, slang) An attractive, confident woman, especially one who is a social media influencer.
(British) A character archetype in pantomime entertainment.
(theology) The chief devil; Satan.
Synonym of vaudevillian.
(informal, chiefly childish) A mean (unkind or miserly) person; a killjoy.
Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.
(chiefly attributive, vulgar, humorous) Generic pejorative adjective: dumb-looking, ugly, stupid, annoying, despicable, etc.
Any of various common types of small insects or other animals which cause harm and annoyance.
In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
(computing, computer security, slang) A malicious hacker, one who violates computer security out of malice or for personal gain.
(colloquial) A cruel, despicable, or otherwise unpleasant woman.
(colloquial, uncountable) vomit.
A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
A person who sins or has sinned.
A criminal or evildoer.
(slang) Of a person, worthless, contemptibly of no value; despicable.
A bad person.
Synonym of prostitute: a person (especially a woman) who offers sexual services for payment.
A female fox.
(chiefly in the plural, also figuratively) A companion; a comrade.
(idiomatic) A person with malicious intent.
A pestilent or predatory ground-borne animal, especially one that kills or harasses a farmer's animals or crops.
(fantasy) A creature or creatures from hell.
A person or thing that bedevils.
(derogatory) A bad person or thing; an object of poor quality.
(archaic) A coward, a dastard; a wretch.
(figurative) An evil or otherwise unpleasant person.
Someone guilty of such conduct; a malefactor.
(vulgar, offensive) A contemptible, unpleasant individual.
A female viper (snake, or treacherous/malignant person)
(vulgar) The female genitalia; the vulva.
A malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak.
(vulgar, slang, offensive or derogatory) A vile or detestable person.
(vulgar) The anus.
(derogatory) A worthless or useless person.
(countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
A base or despicable person; a wretch.
One who vituperates, or censures abusively.
A person who begs.