anti-villain
nounEtymology
From anti- + villain.
Definitions
An antagonist who has or may have noble or honorable aims, but pursues them destructively.
- As much the anti-hero initially as Thorpe is anti-villain, Tinley's function in the first volume is to expose to Catherine various modes of triviality and affectation.
- The rise of the anti-hero as the protagonist of much of modern fiction was accompanied by the rise of what one might call the “anti-villain,” ironically understood as more interesting than his heroic counterpart.
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