different between unmentionable vs villainous

unmentionable

English

Etymology

un- +? mentionable

Adjective

unmentionable (comparative more unmentionable, superlative most unmentionable)

  1. Not mentionable

Derived terms

  • unmentionables
  • unmentionably

Translations

Noun

unmentionable (plural unmentionables)

  1. Something not to be discussed in polite society.
    • 1995, Virginia Schroeder Burnham, William H. Hampton, Since Time Began (page 43)
      He was taught from childhood that the world does not condone homosexuality and that it is an unmentionable of decent people.
    • 2014, Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma (page 100)
      Here, after all, was the circle round which Forster passed the manuscript of his novel Maurice which conveyed so much about being 'an unmentionable of the Oscar Wilde sort'.

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villainous

English

Etymology

From Old French vileneus

Adjective

villainous (comparative more villainous, superlative most villainous)

  1. Of, relating to, or appropriate to a villain.
  2. Wicked, offensive, or reprehensible in nature or behaviour; nefarious.

Alternative forms

  • villanous (obsolete)

Derived terms

  • villainousness

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