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Evil laughter

Evil laughter or maniacal laughter is a stock manic laughter by a villain in fiction. The expression "evil laugh" dates back to at least 1860. "Wicked laugh" can be found even earlier, dating back to at least 1784. Another variant, the "sardonic laugh" shows up in 1714 and might date back even further.

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evil laughter

Noun

  1. The sound produced by a person uttering an evil laugh, frequently represented as "muahahaha."
    There was evil laughter coming from the villain's lair as he was contemplating how he was going to defeat his heroic foe.


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