Villainy

"Villainy" in a Sentence (10 examples)

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

I wondered vaguely what foul villainy it might be that the Morlocks did under the new moon.

There’s foul play somewhere, and there’s black villainy brewing, to that I’ll swear!

I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

Mos Eisley spaceport- you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

He drew from his pocket a pistol, which, devoid of principle or honour, with an assassin-like assault, he instantly aimed at the breast of Lord Deloraine, but which, in the struggle that ensued, as if by retributive justice, went off unexpectedly and lodged its contents in the body of Melliphant,—thus doomed to receive his punishment by his own hand, and by the very weapon he had carried for his own defence in the perpetration of his villanies.

We are all villainy— very villainy, as I am a Christian man.

Apparently, in both domestic and foreign movies, you can't get too villainy to displease an audience.

Yet here, actual reality offers you the worst villain ever and you say, sorry, he is too villainy.

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