villainy
IPA: vˈɪɫʌni
noun
- (uncountable) Evil or wicked character or behaviour.
- (countable) A wicked or treacherous act.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Ill-treatment, indignity, degrading or shameful treatment of someone.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Disgrace, ignominy.
- (uncountable, obsolete) The state of being a villein or serf, and by extension servitude or low estate in life.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Boorishness, rudeness, bad cultivation or manners.
adjective
- Characteristic of a villain.
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Examples of "villainy" in Sentences
- His villainy started a new trend.
- She dies boasting of her villainy.
- It boiled with villainy and violence.
- Villainy implies a certain rational intent.
- Alfred Jingle provides an aura of comic villainy.
- His progression to villainy is gradual, but believable.
- As Mackensen put it, that is a hive of scum and villainy.
- Alfred Jingle provides the Papers with an aura of comic villainy.
- He is chivalrous by nature and does not tolerate any form of villainy.
- It will keep reappearing like the ghost in Hamlet as long as elected knaves keep indulging in knavery and democratic villains in villainy.
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