as in hatefully
in a mean or spiteful manner
the robber villainously snatched the necklace from the old woman's throat
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for villainously
Adverb
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In other words, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.—
Derek Robertson,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Doxxing involves sharing someone’s personal or private information maliciously.—
Julia Marnin,
Sacbee.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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Google and other firms that have delved deeply into generative AI employ a number of techniques to prevent AI from acting maliciously.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
22 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Joe Garcia spoke bitterly about the decline of governance on both sides of the Straits of Florida.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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At the start of the season, the Braves lost seven in a row, setting the tone for a bitterly disappointing campaign.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Finally, the board will have the good sense to just snap their host laptop shut, but not before a wickedly riotous 10 minutes or so in which absolutely no one backs away from the keyboard.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
24 Sep. 2025
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Under the hood, the A17 Pro processor is wickedly powerful, and a massive terabyte of storage outclasses every phone in this price bracket.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
12 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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To protect her face, Campoy used her arm, which the squirrel clawed viciously.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
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In this week's PEOPLE cover story, the matriarch, 80, recalls the scary moment a camel viciously attacked Navarone (her son with ex Marco Garibaldi) during a visit to a friend's animal sanctuary in California's San Fernando Valley.—
Brianne Tracy,
PEOPLE,
19 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Images of Labubus beamed malevolently from their packaging, as if gloating in their unreachability.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Villainously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/villainously. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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