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Example sentences for "villainous"

Lexicographically close words:
villain; villainage; villaine; villaines; villainies; villainously; villains; villainy; villam; villanie
  1. None of his own, perhaps; but those villainous Jesuits.

  2. I exclaim, what a villainous place is a court!

  3. But," I replied, "this is a villainous character.

  4. Here are we every day ridiculing or cursing the villainous antiquated machinery of passports.

  5. Loongurze is infested with a villainous midge, of the same genus as that of the Naga Hills, but few are to be found at Bharowl.

  6. I am said to set the women against the brave men who are friends of the people, and am cautioned by very truculent threats to cease from such villainous practices.

  7. One day I was taking a boat ride in the harbor with two of my lady assistants and six stalwart boy oarsmen, when a boat shot out at us from Blackwell's Island with four villainous men and two degraded women.

  8. A villainous looking servitor showed me to a cold barn-like room where I found no way of locking the door, so I barricaded the entrance with the bureau, placing the chair on top as a burglar alarm.

  9. On one occasion we tried to hold services in the little old deserted schoolhouse, and found it, much to our surprise, packed with the inhabitants of Sodom; a more villainous looking crowd I never saw not even in darkest New York.

  10. Then came a pair of villainous eyes, a bent nose, and cheek-bones with light olive skin drawn tightly across them.

  11. Before he returned on the following morning the Face had again appeared, as before--first a fez rising slowly above the glazed pane, then a wrinkled forehead, then the villainous eyes and the crooked nose.

  12. Villainous designs are soonest concluded; as they had but little time to consult upon what measures they should take, so very little consultation served for what was before them, and they came to this short but hellish resolution, viz.

  13. But instead of amending he addicted himself still more and more to such villainous acts, conversing also with other women.

  14. It seems he married a woman whose friends, at least, were very honest people, and highly displeased with the villainous course of life he led.

  15. These various difficulties and narrow escapes seemed to make no other impression upon Dyer than to give him a greater liking than ever to such sort of villainous enterprises.

  16. This villainous design succeeded according to their wish.

  17. But he continued still very obdurate, being so hardened by a continual series of villainous actions that he seemed to have no idea whatsoever of religion, penitence or atoning by prayers, for the numerous villainies he had committed.

  18. Mean speculation is stamped in every line of that villainous face.

  19. Arrived on the second floor above the entresol, La Cibot beheld a door of the most villainous description.

  20. She tried to read the forehead and the villainous face, and found what is called in business a "wooden head.

  21. Then he stormed at the Casa Popular till they gave him the town prisoners, a villainous six.

  22. The Lieutenant reappeared at the head of a dozen villainous duplicates of the man in the banca.

  23. Then he covered himself with the bedclothes, I wrapped myself hermetically in my cloak, and he began: "The last time I saw you was at the dinner Dupreval gave us, where Fouvenard told us such a villainous story.

  24. I allowed myself to be led away by some of those villainous loafers whom we are foolish enough to call friends, when we ought rather to call them enemies.

  25. The Moor's abused by some most villainous knave, Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow.

  26. This is a subtle whore, A closet lock and key of villainous secrets.

  27. We rest our case here, if the court please,' said Mr. Quillet, as the villainous looking witness retired from the stand.

  28. A villainous urchin, in the arms of his nurse, was making a heart-rending noise with a tin horn, and a passenger muttered something not taught at Sunday-school.

  29. Soon a few short barks announced that Bob had triumphed, and a moment later the dog emerged from the bushes, but not before a villainous odor had reached the boys' nostrils.

  30. The four were sprawled around the fire, over which a large turkey was hung to roast, and the firelight lit up four of as villainous looking faces as ever existed.

  31. For myself, the villainous smell of our purification had made me sick, and I had no appetite; but the rest ate very voraciously of a loaf of coarse bread, which was extended to us with a tongs and two pieces of paper.

  32. Her husband smoked and laughed, and talked villainous French and worse Italian, but was glad to escape to the cabriolet in the hottest of the day, leaving his wife to her cares.

  33. He relates to me the most villainous anecdotes about the holy images.

  34. Last winter, while we were encamping on the Galician frontier, I happened to be out in the open field the whole of one night, and got in the way of a villainous Russian blast.

  35. The truth on't is, I sent for him over; partly to have married him, and partly because his villainous bills came so thick upon me, that I grew weary of the charge.

  36. You heard, about two years ago, of a villainous quack, by the name of Rush, having sued me for scandal.

  37. Malta,’ said Dundas, in his villainous brogue, ‘Malta!

  38. I leaped from him in time to save my life, but not quickly enough to keep the villainous thing from cutting a long jagged track across my thigh, from which spurted a crimson flood.

  39. She started out to that cabin at that hour of the night to meet you, started with Jean Pahusca, as you had commanded her to do, and you know he is a dangerous, villainous brute.

  40. Too evident is it that it will not be your fault, villainous man, if the loss of my soul as well as my honour, which you have robbed me of, will not be completed.

  41. To Australia Peter Crawley went, and with half-a-dozen of the most villainous ruffians on earth in his pay, it seemed impossible for Fielding and Robinson to escape.

  42. They could never be induced to lend their aid to so villainous a scheme, and they must be killed.

  43. The military murderer is thus condemned to mount the villainous scale of guilt.

  44. They are a terribly villainous set of ruffians.

  45. Under the blaze of another match, shielded by the ranger s hands, Larry looked into the scowling, villainous face he had seen earlier in the day.

  46. One of the forms was crouched on its knees, abject, cringing terror stamped on the white villainous face upturned to the electric light above.

  47. Lying on the ground before him was a man with close-cropped hair and a villainous scarred face.

  48. He is a heavy-set man with a villainous face.

  49. Some knives have foolish posies upon them, but thine has a villainous one; look!

  50. Shadow, I am villainous hungry, to hear one of the seven wise masters talk thus emptily.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "villainous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abominable; arrant; atrocious; awful; bad; base; beastly; black; blameworthy; brutal; contemptible; corrupt; criminal; damnable; dark; degenerate; deplorable; depraved; despicable; detestable; devilish; dire; dirty; disgraceful; disgusting; dreadful; egregious; enormous; evil; execrable; fetid; filthy; flagitious; flagrant; foul; fulsome; grievous; gross; hateful; heinous; horrible; horrid; immoral; improper; incorrigible; infamous; infernal; iniquitous; knavish; lamentable; lawless; loathsome; lousy; low; miscreant; monstrous; nasty; naughty; nefarious; noisome; notorious; obnoxious; odious; offensive; outrageous; peccant; perverse; pitiful; putrid; rank; recreant; regrettable; reprehensible; reprobate; repulsive; roguish; rotten; sad; scandalous; scurvy; shabby; shameful; shocking; shoddy; sinful; sinister; sordid; squalid; stinking; terrible; unclean; unforgivable; ungodly; unhealthy; unpardonable; unspeakable; unworthy; vicious; vile; villainous; wicked; woeful; worst; worthless; wretched; wrong