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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior;
[syn: villainy, villainousness]

2. a criminal or vicious act;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Villainy \Vil"lain*y\, n.; pl. Villainies. [OE. vilanie, OF. vilanie, vilainie, vileinie, vilanie, LL. villania. See Villain, n.] [Written also villany.] 1. The quality or state of being a villain, or villainous; extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as, the villainy of the seducer. "Lucre of vilanye." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] The commendation is not in his wit, but in his villainy. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Abusive, reproachful language; discourteous speech; foul talk. [Archaic] [1913 Webster] He never yet not vileinye ne said In all his life, unto no manner wight. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] In our modern language, it [foul language] is termed villainy, as being proper for rustic boors, or men of coarsest education and employment. --Barrow. [1913 Webster] Villainy till a very late day expressed words foul and disgraceful to the utterer much oftener than deeds. --Trench. [1913 Webster] 3. The act of a villain; a deed of deep depravity; a crime. [1913 Webster] Such villainies roused Horace into wrath. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] That execrable sum of all villainies commonly called a slave trade. --John Wesley. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

villainy n 1: the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior [syn: villainy, villainousness] 2: a criminal or vicious act
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

30 Moby Thesaurus words for "villainy": abomination, atrocity, bad, baseness, chicanery, degradation, disgrace, error, evil, infamy, iniquity, knavery, knavishness, moral turpitude, obliquity, peccancy, rascality, rascalry, reprobacy, roguery, roguishness, scampishness, scandal, scoundrelism, shame, sin, turpitude, vileness, villainousness, wrong