villainies
- plural of villainy.
Example Sentences
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History is all intrigues and executions, beautiful ineffectual ladies and poisoning queens, love-stories and villainies, steeped in Dickensian melodrama and embroidered with the theatrical effects of a Bleak House or an Oliver Twist.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2015
In Mr Merriman’s retelling, the Paris Commune is a reminder that the worst villainies are possible once you have dehumanised your opponent.
From Economist • Nov. 27, 2014
“There has been a transference of villainies from the principals to the agents.”
From Salon • Dec. 22, 2013
Warner Bros., with no grudge at all against lawyers, are constrained to angle the picture's villainies some other way.
From Time Magazine Archive
Be off, then—back with thee to Paris and all its villainies.
From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Lever, Charles James
