[
UK
/vˈɪləni/
]
NOUN
- a criminal or vicious act
- the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior
How To Use villainy In A Sentence
- There is, however, more villainy afoot in this film than the English or the class that they and their American cousins represent.
- It showed supernatural power being used to combat greed, lust and villainy.
- I appeal to every reader of feeling and sentiment whether the fictitious murther of Duncan by Macbeth in Shakespeare does not excite in him as great a horror of villainy, as the real one of Henry IV by Ravaillac as related by Davila?
- Johnny Canuck would never be corrupted, and would fight to his last breath to defend our nation against evil and villainy.
- Will the power of good, represented by the brash young Cheng and his elderly mentor Master Cheung, be able to overpower the pure diabolic villainy of Evil Cat?
- His velvety-voiced villainy sent pleasurable shivers up the spine.
- She calms down only when the boy's mother explains to her what kind of villainy her father played in their life.
- Pr*ythee, peace: — Pay her the debt you owe her, and unpay the villainy you have done with her; the one you may do with ilerling money, and the other with current repentance. The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of ...
- As we keep saying, these systems will only work on people who actively want to cooperate and be rehabilitated, and aren't applicable on a wide scale to people who just want to stay out of prison while carrying on their life of villainy.
- It had to be the smuggling, the theft of high-technology, the implications of villainy, even treachery; only then could he move to -- THE LAST RAVEN