How To Use Villainy In A Sentence
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Perhaps... Yes, it can only be because she thinks Percy has some new villainy in mind, and that she is helping to protect you.
HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
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Still, for unmitigated black-hearted villainy, forget Swan Lake and consider the contemporary dance repertoire.
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Every sort of villainy has repeatedly been brought home to him.
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Now shall I tell you, said the damosel; this sword that I am girt withal doth me great sorrow and cumbrance, for I may not be delivered of this sword but by a knight, but he must be a passing good man of his hands and of his deeds, and without villainy or treachery, and without treason.
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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It is the picaresque story of an Irish adventurer who unconsciously reveals his villainy while attempting self-justification.
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Numidia, which is your own property, to sink into ruin [57] through villainy and the slaughter of our family.
Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War
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Corruption and villainy takes place in every section of society and that was a crucial part of the novel.
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a species of villainy
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On my return I found nothing but villainy and evil.
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I wonder how much of his villainy is revenge on nature and human beings.
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Money has shown men how to practise villainy, and taught them impiousness in every action!
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It seems this one single use left such an indelible sacredness upon them, that neither the villainy of the persons, nor the impiety of the design, could be a sufficient reason to unhallow and degrade them to the same common use that other vessels may be applied to.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.
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Professional villainy now boasts an annual turnover of ￡14 billion.
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Fons fraudum et maleficiorum, 'tis the fountain of cozenage and villainy.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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But should all their villainy be once displayed in its true colours and exposed to the people, there never was, is, nor will be any spokesman so sweet-mouthed, whose fine colloguing tongue could save
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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His portrayal of a tortured child, brutally beaten into adult villainy gives depth to what is otherwise just your average mad, evil, genius hell-bent on destroying Earth.
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He's a racing driver who lives in a junkyard and fights villainy.
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Hansen's Rush" was one of the richest, noisiest, and the "rowdiest" of all the many newly-discovered fields, and contained more of the elements of villainy amongst its six hundred inhabitants than any other rush in the Australian Colonies.
Tom Gerrard
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Like any sea-port, Marseille has always been a tough town with its fair share of villainy.
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They justify every villainy in the name of high ideals.
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He also reads newspapers and is, therefore, aware that our fictional villainy is currently being given a factual twist.
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They belong to a different era of movie villainy - the silent days.
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The impression of villainy was inescapable.
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This is my favorite one as well so far though I laughed a little harder at the Harry Potteresque "villainy" piece.
HH Com 86
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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
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Since there is some mild hostility to the term blogosphere, I propose that we rename it Pirate Helltown (Mos Eisley or some other hive of scum and villainy would also do), blogs become ships, and bloggers become writers of fortune.
Anime Nano!
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This, my Lord, you are permitted to do; they have no means of resistance; but think not to impose on me by a sophistical assertion of right, or to gloss the villainy of your conduct with the colours of justice; the artifice is beneath the desperate force of your character, and is not sufficiently specious to deceive the discernment of virtue.
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story
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Yes, perhaps knowing there was only collusion and not some irrefutable villainy involved would make the breaking of James easier.
THE LAST RAVEN
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But the very complexity of the narrative - a tale of villainy and suspense - has made it difficult to adapt.
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The producer, in the role of the mastermind, is avarice and villainy personified, as the role demands.
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It showed supernatural power being used to combat greed, lust and villainy.
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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?
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Johnny Canuck would never be corrupted, and would fight to his last breath to defend our nation against evil and villainy.
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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?
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His velvety-voiced villainy sent pleasurable shivers up the spine.
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She calms down only when the boy's mother explains to her what kind of villainy her father played in their life.
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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 ...
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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.
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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
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Damas, are called an orgulous knight, and full of villainy, and not worth of prowess your deeds, therefore I will that ye give unto your brother all the whole manor with the appurtenance, under this form, that Sir Ontzlake hold the manor of you, and yearly to give you a palfrey to ride upon, for that will become you better to ride on than upon a courser.
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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They are remote and unrealistic ivory-tower idealists, corrupt self-seekers, secret subversives, or simply too weak to resist villainy.
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But, when he was in the shallop, this examinate saw him in a motley gown at liberty, and they spoke together, Hudson saying: It is that villain Ivott [Juet], that hath undone us; and he answered: No, it is Grene that hath done all this villainy.
Henry Hudson
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The actor brings a little too much moustache-twisting villainy to Edmund, a role that already has more than its fair share.
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There is, however, more villainy afoot in this film than the English or the class that they and their American cousins represent.
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Things are made to arouse our passion, so long as meanness and villainy prevail; and if old men, knowing the balance of the world, can contemplate them all "dispassionately," more clearly than any thing else, to my mind, that proves the beauty of being young.
Erema — My Father's Sin
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No story can parallel the villainy and wickednesses of this man
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Regan quickly says she has received news of Edgar's villainy and has come to repudiate her father's naming of Edgar as his godson.
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A Jew, once purchasing oil from a poor Arab, carried his villainy so far as actually to make his tare and tret weigh more than the skin-bag when full of oil, and coolly told the amazed Arab he had no money to give him for the value received.
Travels in Morocco
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The narrative requires a victim who can play the role of innocence aggrieved and a defendant who can embody pure villainy.
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While _Hamlet_ may be described as centering attention on a meditative and high-minded avenger, Tourneur, Webster, Middleton, and later dramatists found greater interest in the study of villainy and intrigue.
The Facts About Shakespeare
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The insistence on seeing HIV transmission as villainy obscures the most stubborn fact about the epidemic - far from being the realm of malevolent or sociopathic people, HIV is transmitted through behaviors that are otherwise completely natural and normal, such as penetrative intercourse - or behaviors that may often be hard to control rather than
RHRealityCheck.org
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Sky Captain retreads the familiar superhero-cub reporter relationship while borrowing liberally from H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds, and throwing in ‘Man in the Black Hat’ villainy for good measure.
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In Gotham City, villainy always seems the more fun option.
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The damosel beheld the poor knight, and saw he was a likely man, but for his poor arrayment she thought he should be of no worship without villainy or treachery.
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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At the end of the book, virtue is rewarded and villainy punished.
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This is the minimum price the vandals must be made to pay for their villainy.
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Moore's story goes much deeper into the psychology of his characters than he did in the first adventure, fleshing out the already rather meaty Edward Hyde beyond his pantomime villainy.