Definition of villainy
villainies
1 : villainous conduct; also : a villainous act
2 : the quality or state of being villainous : depravity
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Examples of villainy in a Sentence
a story of villainy and betrayal
the gruesome villainies of war
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Pugh, who bears an amusing resemblance to Miley Cyrus, gives a spirited performance that doesn’t shy away from her character’s villainy.
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After losing their jobs, Gru, wife Lucy (Kristen Wiig) and their girls head to Fredonia to meet Dru, the head of the family pig farming business, which is actually a front for super-villainy, except Dru is terrible at it.
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Tired of Gru’s identity crisis and craving the comforts of old-fashioned villainy, the Minions resign in protest and spend much of the movie off by themselves, utterly oblivious to their former master and his latest round of imbecilic misadventures.
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After losing their jobs, Gru, wife Lucy (Kristen Wiig) and their girls head to Fredonia to meet Dru, the head of the family pig farming business, which is actually a front for super-villainy, except Dru is terrible at it.
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To talk of villainy and virtue, sin and redemption, in post-pill, pre-AIDS Hollywood is lunatic.
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His cool, calculating king, who reveals his true self only in the soliloquys that close many of the play’s scenes, sends chills up your spine with his coldblooded villainy.
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In A Way Out, two unlikely allies, Leo and Vincent, must pull off crimes and other villainy to exact revenge on someone.
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In Jafar's case, wardrobe helps define the villainy.
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First Known Use of villainy
13th century
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