villainy
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"Hathaway is a model of steely self-possession masking vulnerability; Pattinson bites into his character's villainy with gusto."
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
You don’t threaten such villainy if you don’t need to.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
The scenes are the stuff of nightmares, and even villainy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026
Instead, “Welcome to Derry” allows the place’s homegrown villainy to speak for itself.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2025
After six hundred years of their own strife and a few centuries of Portuguese villainy, the warring tribes of Angola had finally agreed to a peace plan.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
History is all intrigues and executions, beautiful ineffectual ladies and poisoning queens, love-stories and villainies, steeped in Dickensian melodrama and embroidered with the theatrical effects of a Bleak House or an Oliver Twist.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2015
In Mr Merriman’s retelling, the Paris Commune is a reminder that the worst villainies are possible once you have dehumanised your opponent.
From Economist ● Nov. 27, 2014
“There has been a transference of villainies from the principals to the agents.”
From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2013
As Varga listens to the list of the governor's villainies, he can't help sympathizing with the malcontents, but then, there is his Hippocratic oath.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eh?" exclaimed Sir Benjamin, "I say what——" "None o' your French villainies, Ben," continued the Marquis, "we want nothing smacking o' the tap-room, the stable or the kennel, Ben, 'twon't do!
From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Jeffery Farnol
Vocabulary lists containing villainy
"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 1
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Flora and Ulysses
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