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Iago

American  
[ee-ah-goh] / iˈɑ goʊ /

noun

  1. the villain in Shakespeare's Othello.


Iago Cultural  
  1. The treacherous villain in the play Othello, by William Shakespeare. As adviser to Othello, a general of Venice, Iago lies to his master and eventually drives him to murder his wife.


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Mr. Westrate makes for a cleanly spoken and brutally cool Iago.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

As Roderigo, whom Iago manipulates like a bored puppeteer idly pulling the strings, Daniel Velez is idiotically gullible.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 1, 2026

But Cyngor Gwynedd councillor Craig ab Iago said Article 4 being quashed was "disappointing".

From BBC Mar. 23, 2026

Iago Aspas and Williot Swedberg scored in the first half to fire Celta Vigo to a 2-1 victory at PAOK, who reduced the deficit through Alexander Jeremejeff after the interval.

From Barron's Feb. 19, 2026

In Shakespeare’s Othello, Iago is furious to find Michael Cassio, ‘a great arithmetician’, whose knowledge of warfare is all book-learning, has been promoted ahead of him.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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