villainous

Example Sentences

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But the most villainous entity they encounter is a duplicitous schemer played with oleaginous insincerity by Hugh Grant.

From Seattle Times

So one of the sort of villainous properties of the virus is that it integrates; it inserts its genetic material into yours.

From Scientific American

While each episode has a distinct storyline and characters, the good people are always deeply wholesome, the villains clearly villainous.

From Washington Post

I’m enjoying the show’s willingness to offer fresh takes on members of certain species, like Krinn, a villainous Vulcan, or Sneed, the gangster Vulcan.

From New York Times

That Vazquez conceived the bellicose saga of brotherly discord from the point of view of this villainous, though far from simplistically rendered figure results in a fascinating, if unsettling study on the nature of evil.

From Los Angeles Times