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Synonyms for archenemy

one who is hostile to or opposes the purposes or interests of another

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And a men's chorus, 24 basses, in two scenes, accompanying a character called Snoke, who is the archvillain."
Rowling wrote on Twitter that Voldemort, the archvillain of her popular Harry Potter series, "was nowhere near as bad" as Trump.
The archvillain of his work is Ronald Reagan, back then only the governor and, perforce, the regent of the University of California system and the guy who called in the cops to quell the student antiwar uprisings at a moment when free speech and freedom of conscience meant something acutely real.
Even Lichtenstein Ripped Him Off: One of the best-known paintings by the pop artist Roy Lichtenstein is "Image Duplicator'' (circa 1963), a reworking of a Kirby drawing (uncredited) of the X-Men archvillain Magneto.
On the sidelines will be the archvillain. The man who would be king, prowling around the visiting technical area like he owns the place.
Other factors militating against a self-hating assessment of the Stanley Motss character are Wag the Dog?, farcical tone, which Hoffman's over-the-top performance underscores, plus the fact that Motss, as reprehensible as his actions may be, is not the archvillain. His expertise and connections are central to the media concotion of a phony war with Albania, created to divert attention from a sex scandal involving a US president up for reelection; but the Machiavellian plot itself was the work of damage-control mastermind Conrad Bean (Robert De Niro).
The archvillain from the James Bond films -- who's often seen stroking a white cat -- might be making a return to the big screen following a settlement announced Friday between studio MGM, production company Danjaq and the estate of Kevin McClory.
Armstrong's not the first boss to terminate an employee while in the midst of a childlike snit, but his actions went viral and he became an archvillain.
Joe: Retaliation, 12, PS19.99 ARCHVILLAIN Zartan (Arnold Vosloo), who is impersonating the US President, frames the G.I.
A new archvillain, Bane, is another disfigured harbinger of misrule, a ruthless mercenary commander with a Darth Vader-like mask and enigmatic past.
This book will appeal to fans of Barry Lyga's prose novels (The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, Goth Girl Rising, Boy-Toy, Hero-Type, Wolverine: Worst Day Ever, and Archvillain) and to fans of Colleen Doran (A Distant Soil).
He was a military leader and a diplomat, thought of as a hero, or as an archvillain, in the great religious conflict of his time.
His most recent BRB publications are "An 'Archvillain' to be rehabilitated?
She needs to demonstrate that Pinochet's interest in market reforms was typical of authoritarian regimes--otherwise, her archvillain Friedman might have been right when he said that the surprising thing in Chile was not that the market worked but that the generals allowed it to work.
The countries are China and Vietnam, which the United States recognized in 1979 and 1995, respectively, and Cuba, still an archvillain in Washington's eyes.