Rapscallion vs Villain - What's the difference?
rapscallion | villain |
A rascal, scamp, rogue, or scoundrel.
* 1901 , , The Inheritors , ch. 3:
(attributive) Roguish, disreputable.
* 1869 , . He Knew He Was Right , ch. 12:
* 1895 , , The Carbonels , ch. 23:
(rfc-sense) (en) A vile, wicked person.
# An extremely depraved person, or one capable or guilty of great crimes.
# A deliberate scoundrel.
The bad person in a work of fiction; often the main antagonist of the hero.
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As nouns the difference between rapscallion and villain
is that rapscallion is a rascal, scamp, rogue, or scoundrel while villain is (en) a vile, wicked person.As a verb villain is
(obsolete|transitive) to debase; to degrade.rapscallion
English
Noun
(en noun)- She was the sister who had remained within the pale; I, the rapscallion of a brother whose vagaries were trying to his relations.
- [H]e is dressed in such a rapscallion manner that the people would think you were talking to a house-breaker.
- "I baint a-going to give my master's property to a lot of rapscallion thieves and robbers like you."
villain
English
(wikipedia villain)Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain , and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
- As The Dark Knight Rises brings a close to Christopher Nolan’s staggeringly ambitious Batman trilogy, it’s worth remembering that director chose The Scarecrow as his first villain —not necessarily the most popular among the comic’s gallery of rogues, but the one who set the tone for entire series.