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Hissable

Hissable meaning

Capable of being pronounced with a hiss. | Deserving to be hissed or booed; villainous.

Example sentences (2)

Phoenix is a wonderfully hissable villain as Commodus, a legacy brat who understands his own absence of nobility and honor as liberating qualities – like any good tyrant, he sees a clean conscience as a terrible obstacle to his ambition.

The role in question, hissable baddie Dolores Umbridge, gripped and terrified film fans in equal measure.