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Villains a priest reformed (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pirates

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'villains' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'a priest reformed' is the wordplay.
'reformed' indicates an anagram.
'a'+'priest'='apriest'
'apriest' is an anagram of 'PIRATES'.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for pirates that I've seen before include "Buccaneers" , "Robbers on the high seas" , "Robbers at sea" , "Bad sailors" , "Copyright infringers" .)

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