arch-villain
noun[C]
uk/ˌɑːtʃˈvɪl.ən/us/ˌɑːrtʃˈvɪl.ən/anespeciallybadvillain(= anevilcharacterin astory,film, etc.):
超级反派,大魔头Christopher Reeve as Superman wasawesomein hisshowdownwith the arch-villain Lex Luthor.克里斯托弗·里夫饰演的超人在跟大魔头莱克斯·卢瑟的对决中表现神勇。
- The book's arch-villain,billionaireNicolas Creel,explains: "I didn'tbringyou here for alecture. Ibroughtyou here todie."
- Arthur Conan Doyledescribedhis arch-villain Moriarty as 'the Napoleon ofcrime'.
- Kate Millettcastigatedhim as the arch-villainchauvinistin her 1970feministpolemic, Sexual Politics.
- Thepoliticiancan beseenas the arch-villain of thepiece.
Morally wrong and evil
- abhorrent
- amoral
- amorality
- anomie
- antichrist
- dissipated
- dissolute
- dissolutely
- dissoluteness
- enormity
- no more Mr Nice Guyidiom
- non-ethical
- obscene
- obscenely
- obscenity
- turpitude
- unconscionable
- unconscionably
- unethical
- unprincipled
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