How To Use Villainous In A Sentence
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Nor does either of these dramas, though the earlier depicts a corrupt civilisation, include even among the minor characters anyone who can be called villainous or horrible.
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
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While Megatron and Optimus Prime are fighting, Megatron says in villainous fashion, "These humans don't deserve to live!" to which Optimus replies, "They deserve to choose for themselves!
Movie Review: Transformers
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These are also produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and also feature the amazing Boman Irani (ViruS) in comically villainous roles.
3 Idiots: Bollywood blockbuster is equal parts cautionary tale, maker manifesto, portrait of India Boing Boing
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A bad guy is no longer simply the opposite of ‘good guy;’ the ensuing but signals the vitiation of the villainous sting of depravity.
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A nation that once was great is now called villainous because of people like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
A Letter to Ali Khameini
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Ghost would not appear in’t at the latter Day? then the compound of nasty Smells about him, stinking Breath, Mustachoes stuft with villainous snush, Tobacco, and hollow Teeth: thus prepar’d for Delight, you meet in Bed, where you may lie and sigh whole
The Rover; or the Banish'd Cavaliers
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Mr Johnnie Walker, on the other hand, is a villainous incorporation of bloodthirsty evil as he murders cats, devours their hearts live and deep freezes their heads.
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In honor of the holiday, Hawaii Five-0 executive producer Peter Lenkov is giving fans a gift — the introduction of the villainous Wo Fat, Steve McGarrett's archenemy from the original 1968 — 1980 series.
Keck's Exclusives: Hawaii Five-0 Brings Back a Big Killer
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Holland / Swamp Thing nearly completes this desire until the scientist, Jason Woodrue aka the villainous Floronic Man, hired by Swamp Thing's
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Well," said Arthur, "thou hast said thy message, the which is the most villainous and lewdest message that ever man heard sent unto a king; also thou mayest see my beard is full young yet to make a purfle of it.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes
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All the villains are villainous, the damsels worthy of long low wolf whistles, the heroes swashbuckling.
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Set during the era of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, Gladiator casts Joaquin Phoenix as Aurelius's villainous heir who imprisons hero general Maximus and forces him to become a gladiator.
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The toothy grin of this naturally modest farmer's son was less than villainous at the finish.
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A more recent fictional character with swinging villainous tendencies is Professor Snape in the Harry Potter series.
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We found lobsters among the rocks, too, and on some beaches a strange kind of lobsterish delicacy called in Tahiti _varo_, a kind of mantis-shrimp that looks like a superlatively villainous centipede.
White Shadows in the South Seas
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He shot Janine a villainous grin as he pulled the car from his parking spot, she gave him an unamused look, but it became a playful grin seconds later.
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Amidst a crew of cut-throats and villainous slave traders, Davie feels that all is utterly hopeless and he despairs of his future alone in the world with no hope of return to his beloved homeland.
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My mother was like the evil clockwork of some kind of villainous clock gone haywire.
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A moment later he emerged, a heavy-set young fellow of eighteen or nineteen, with a glowering, villainous countenance, trailing at his heels.
Chapter 3
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Borne of Vader, Fett required an equally villainous look, but something a bit less conspicuous.
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Of course I assisted him as well as I could under the circumstances, but as he limped along towards the companion-hatchway, the leader of the desperadoes, that villainous "marquis," who I thought had met with his just deserts long since, not having seen him for some little time among the other fighters, most unexpectedly jumped from the rigging in front of the colonel and aimed a vindictive blow at him with a marline-spike.
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
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Carrey savours every flowery speech and villainous smirk in a performance that is more disciplined than one might have imagined.
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There is thus a mixture of the comic and the tragic, the virtuous and the villainous, the young and the old, the male and the female.
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I denounce the liberticide Brissot, the Girondist faction, the villainous committee of twenty-one in the National Assembly.
The French Revolution - Volume 3
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This is a villainous pair of shoes; they have ruined my feet.
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Britain has become a bolt-hole for villainous individuals and criminal organisations from all over the world.
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Kenneth Branagh preens himself amusingly as buttery fop, explorer and new Defence Against The Dark Arts teacher Gilderoy Lockhart; Jason Isaacs is disdain personified as the villainous Lucius Malfoy.
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My father stood at his door and held in his upraised hand a pair of villainous boots, old and "clouted," fit for the Gibeonites, very different from the substantial English aids to the understanding which he had placed in all good faith outside his door the previous night.
Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873
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Whether his characters were villainous or valiant, serious or comedic, his secret lay in his ability to immerse himself in a role.
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Among those numerous TVB characters played by Deric Wan, the villainous roles always have the deepest impression on audiences. One reporter asked him for his thoughts after playing villains.
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Geoffrey Rush, playing the villainous, pop-eyed seadog Barbossa in this enjoyable romp, gives it his best shot, a phlegmy gargle of rage.
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What course will justice take to make those responsible for the villainous wickedness perpetrated on the silent victims pay?
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Breath, Mustachoes stuft with villainous snush, Tobacco, and hollow
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I
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Owen backed up a step as Solstice rubbed up against him, indulging in a villainous grin.
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‘Not really,’ I shook my head, feeling that villainous grin coming back to me.
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Do you consider actors to be outsiders, taking on various guises, heroic, villainous or whatever, to escape from themselves?
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If you would accept our escort, we would guard you from bands of villainous outlaws.
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I watched the man with furtive caution as we traversed the forest, for I didn't trust him, even if he did not seem villainous.
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They could provide forlorn pullets, certainly from the same farmyard with the lean kine of Egypt, and to these they could add, what was much better left unadded, a villainous species of unleavened bread, a sort of hoecake, not at all improved -- precisely like the run of travelers -- by leaving home and wandering in the Orient.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
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These assertions will be estimated at the proper value by those who are acquainted with Trenchard's pamphlets, pamphlets in which the shocking word villainous will without difficulty be found, and which are full of malignant reflections on William.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5
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He was a clean-living young man whose spare time ran to nothing more villainous than drama and singing.
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Well, with my vast fortune stolen by the villainous high-way-man Black Scarlet, I must once again make my way in the world.
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His attempt at a villainous laugh was actually rather scary.
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Jobless and destitute of funds, McClean enlists with the Black Knight Legion, a band of villainous mercenaries driven by the acquisition of financial gain.
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The blank side of his face was much wrinkled and puckered up, which gave him a very sinister appearance, especially when he smiled, at which times his expression bordered closely on the villainous.
Nicholas Nickleby
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A most villainous kind of bannock of unleavened mealie-meal and crushed oats, calculated to try the strongest teeth and trouble the toughest digestion, "Gold Pen" might have added.
The Dop Doctor
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She lucked out here with a better cast, and Malkovich is clearly having too much fun playing the villainous, devilish aesthete Ripley.
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Meanwhile, the villainous criminal who stole one of the machines is running through modern London like a fox in a hen coop.
Times, Sunday Times
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Victor, a tall wiry man with beady eyes and a villainous curly black goatee, announced calmly, unsmiling.
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It tells the story of Vindici (played in our film by Christopher Eccleston), who, impoverished and dispossessed, returns to court to murder the villainous duke.
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What separates the heroic from the villainous is the use, and abuse, of power.
Buffalo Pundit
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In the soap, Richard Hillman gained infamy for his dodgy dealings and ruthless behaviour, killing anyone who got in the way of villainous schemes.
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For the eleven-shilling oilskins I was referred to a villainous den in a back street, which the shopman said they always recommended, and where a dirty and bejewelled Hebrew chaffered with me (beginning at 18s.) over two reeking orange slabs distantly resembling moieties of the human figure.
The Riddle of the Sands
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a blessed pratie or a boult of fat bacon will never go down one of your villainous throats again; and then, 'he added,' I'll sell you for scarecrows to the Pope o 'Room, who wants a dozen or two of you to sweep out his palace.'
Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
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It is sad to think that the love of a mother can possess villainous aspects.
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Agatha was a famous beauty from a noble family, who was chased after by the villainous senator.
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His attempt at a villainous laugh was actually rather scary.
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A crime of such selfishness, vindictiveness and plain no-goodedness that I hesitate to lay it before you in all its red toothed, black cloaked and villainous evil.
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Jobless and destitute of funds, McClean enlists with the Black Knight Legion, a band of villainous mercenaries driven by the acquisition of financial gain.
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Amidst a crew of cut-throats and villainous slave traders, Davie feels that all is utterly hopeless and he despairs of his future alone in the world with no hope of return to his beloved homeland.
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Another debutant is the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II that the villainous Valentin Zukovsky has in the World is Not Enough.
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Even in the nineteenth century a dean of Westminster Abbey refused to allow a plaque honouring the villainous author of Paradise Lost to stain the abbey's walls, although later deans allowed a bust in Poet's Corner.
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Villainously dirty walls surround a massive entrance-gate studded with nails and bands of iron, intervolved in artful designs.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
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In this commandment it is forbidden and defended all manner sin of the flesh which is called generally lechery, which is a right foul sin and villainous.
The Golden Legend, vol. 1
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Just as the novel rewards villainous behavior, so it promotes guilty identification that allows the reader to enjoy moral transgression by association.
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These villainous bipeds do fearfully exorbitate mine ear," said the agonised musician.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)
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Anderson is an evil, reckless, villainous outlaw - in her own words.
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Ironfoot is a former soldier and currently a scholar working for the seelie main Academy and specializing in arcane magic and technology who is investigating the devastating "weapon of mass destruction" that the villainous unseelie Queen Mab had unleashed on a seelie city at the end of Midwinter.
"The Office of Shadow" by Matthew Sturges (reviewed by Liviu Suciu)
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Producers of the rival big show in town, "Burning Down the House" immediately dismissed Obama's script as more radical agit- prop dramaturgy, but most independent scribes saw it as an old-fashioned sports melodrama featuring a beleaguered coach giving a locker room halftime speech invoking the spirit of his old friend Sputnik while exhorting the team to pull together and defeat the villainous adversary, Doctor Deficit.
Will Durst: Boffo Smash or Miserable Flop?
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What barbarous, villainous, and depraved acts did he commit that labor leaders and heads of national liberal groups denounce him as the enemy of minorities, the poor, women, and the environment?
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Clearly, he considered me to have engaged in villainous practices.
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More disgraceful is the recent practice of booing, at their curtain call, singers who portray villainous characters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then a cheap supper, a long walk along the quais or ramparts or outside -- a game of dominoes, and a glass or two of "Malines" or "Louvain" -- then bed, without invading hordes; the Flemish are as clean as the Dutch; and there he would soon smoke and read himself to sleep in spite of chimes -- which lull you, when once you get "achimatized," as he called it, meaning of course to be funny: a villainous kind of fun -- caught, I fear, in Barge Yard,
The Martian
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The Perdido Star eventually reaches Cuba, where young Jack's parents are murdered by the requisite villainous Spanish don.
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The result of this majestic writing spree is the swashbuckling tale of heroic Prince Rama and his allies, and their universe-rattling battle with the villainous demon king Totsakan and his unruly cohorts.
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You have not suddenly turned into a villainous Victorian occultist with swirling black moustaches and a silk lined cloak.
SANDS OF TIME
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Plato to be pitied or laughd at? must he be elegized or odified? or be sung in villainous ballads to a scurvey tune?
Letter 68
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The "Nihongi" gives dates of events supposed to have happened fifteen hundred years before, with an accuracy which may be called villainous; while the "Kojiki" states that Wani, a Korean teacher, brought the "Thousand Character Classic" to Japan in A.D.
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
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Even The Beatles, who had learned their trade in the villainous atmosphere of Hamburg's Star Club, were eased into suits and smiles for consumption by the genteel British public.
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In this critically acclaimed performance, the actor explores and analyses some of Shakespeare's most villainous characters like Lago, the Macbeths, Shylock and Richard III.
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Quite apart from the power of denial, they also were under the control of a corrupt and villainous mayor for many years.
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With the images of terror still vividly etched in our personal and collective consciousness, it is easy and tempting to project all of modern evil on to terrorists or other villainous people.
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Add in a deserted docks scene with a bunch of cowering, villainous longshoremen, a runaway train and the inexplicable appearance of bats.
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But its lessons, on closer examination, are less straightforward than the clichés of the doomed inventor and the villainous mogul might suggest.
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Well, said Arthur, thou hast said thy message, the which is the most villainous and lewdest message that ever man heard sent unto a king; also thou mayest see my beard is full young yet to make a purfle of it.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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The same monstrous depravity appears in their veal, which is bleached by repeated bleedings, and other villainous arts, till there is not
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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a villainous plot
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Plato to be pitied or laughd at? must he be elegized or odified? or be sung in villainous ballads to a scurvey tune?
Letter 68
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His black mustache-goatee-beard combo made him look a little more villainous, or perhaps a little more dashing.
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Meanwhile, the villainous criminal who stole one of the machines is running through modern London like a fox in a hen coop.
Times, Sunday Times
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Manet they could stand, even Claude Monet; but Cézanne -- communard and anarchist he must be (so said the wise ones in official circles), for he was such a villainous painter!
Promenades of an Impressionist
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People have been known to spit at villainous characters on the street or send in bottles of medicine when other characters are ill.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile, the villainous criminal who stole one of the machines is running through modern London like a fox in a hen coop.
Times, Sunday Times
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That Emma has been flippant rather than villainous is the saving grace that makes Mr. Knightley’s reprimand seem not only tolerable but meliorative, an appeal to a latent, better self, one informed by the "natural charity" of her "heart," as A. Walton Litz puts it (141).
Boxing Emma; or the Readers Dilemma at the Box Hill Games
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Nurse, my former care-giver who ran off with the villainous Black Scarlet.
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a villainous band of thieves
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When their 10 puppies are suddenly "dognapped" by the villainous Cruella de Vil, they summon the help of a vast network of dogs and set off to rescue their pups.
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When their ten puppies are suddenly 'dognapped' by the villainous Cruella de Vil, they summon the help of a vast network of dogs and set off to rescue their pups.
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Then a cheap supper, a long walk along the quais or ramparts or outside -- a game of dominoes, and a glass or two of "Malines" or "Louvain" -- then bed, without invading hordes; the Flemish are as clean as the Dutch; and there he would soon smoke and read himself to sleep in spite of chimes -- which lull you, when once you get "achimatized," as he called it, meaning of course to be funny: a villainous kind of fun -- caught, I fear, in Barge Yard,
The Martian
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A girl can't even get the satisfaction of contemplating evil deeds in a properly villainous position these days!
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While a lot of Robins have been troubled youths, there's something thematically appropriate about this former Spoiler turning from her supervillainous legacy to this superheroic one.
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In turn, the state, blustering about the end of civilization like the swaggering capitano of the commedia dell'arte, plays the villainous authority who thwarts the inamorati.
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It was bad enough when he had slicked-back lustrous locks – that at least gave him the comic-villainous tinge of The Count from Sesame Street – but now he's got that six-year-old-gives-Barbie-a-haircut barnet, the fellow is positively haunting.
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Charlie also is trying to escape the clutches of the villainous Rafi, who has masterminded the evil plot.
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While Barbara stays up in the clocktower tracking crime on the web, Helena skulks through the dark New Gotham nights kicking villainous butt.
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‘I always play bad guys, misunderstood beings,’ says Fraser, who recently lit up the stage as the villainous servant Dubois in Marivaux's Counterfeit Secrets.
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Engaged on a somewhat illegal errand for his brother Darren, in prison on a drugs charge, he witnesses a gangland murder carried out by the villainous Harry Taylor.