Saboteur
Villain
Villain noun - A mean, evil, or unprincipled person.
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Saboteur and villain are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Saboteur" instead a noun "Villain".
Nearby Words: villainous, villainy
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- The saboteur turns out to be The Blank, who is mad about being left out of the film — very likely a comment on the fact that the villain of Beatty's film is The Blank In-Name-Only.
Source: Who Would Want to Watch Us? -
The ending of Hitchcock's Saboteur, where the villain falls from the Statue of Liberty leaving the hero holding onto an empty jacket sleeve.
Source: Slow-Motion Fall - In the early Babylon 5 episode "Survivors", Leanna Kemmer is the Designated Villain for most of the episode...because, after a witness names Garibaldi as a saboteur, and plans for a bomb are found in his quarters along with a whole lot of alien money, Ms.
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