villainy
Use Villainy in a sentence
ə noun, plural vil·lain·ies.
1.
the actions or conduct of a villain; outrageous wickedness.
2.
a villainous act or deed.
3.
Obsolete, villeinage.
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| —n , pl -lainies | |
| 1. | conduct befitting a villain; vicious behaviour or action |
| 2. | an evil, abhorrent, or criminal act or deed |
| 3. | the fact or condition of being villainous |
| 4. | English history a rare word for villeinage |
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Villainy
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Example sentences
His characterization is a disservice to organized villainy.
Wherever there's money sloshing around, there's alway going to be villainy.
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