How to Use villainy in a Sentence

villainy

noun

• It’s about young love and the little acts of chance and villainy that realign lives.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2020
• But make no mistake: the smell of villainy wafts through this fine film like the smoke of a costly cigar.
  — Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2021
• The Rock did give full respect to Elba for his full-on villainy.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 29 July 2019
• Even many of the ex-President’s opponents haven’t grasped the scale of the man’s villainy.
  — Hannah Jocelyn, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
• In the comics, Dane fights alongside the Avengers, and wrestles between heroism and villainy thanks to the cursed Ebony Blade.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 28 Oct. 2021
• Frankly, the Astros ought to have embraced their villainy.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• The inevitable charisma of villainy makes the accusers vivid as well.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• The inevitable charisma of villainy makes the accusers vivid as well.
  — The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
• Some of these are now in orbit around Earth, and perhaps bring James Bond villainy to mind.
  — Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner, 3 Dec. 2020
• Does justice prevail, or the dull villainy of the world triumph?
  — Time Staff, Time, 22 May 2017
• What this does, some say, is equate queerness with villainy.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 21 June 2021
• The bounty hunter is there, there’s a general hive of scum and villainy vibe.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 20 Feb. 2020
• But the writing for her descent into madness and villainy has been on the wall.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 10 Mar. 2022
• As a scoundrel, players decide on their own code among a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2024
• The acts of villainy aren't what are unsettling about this novel.
  — Star Tribune, 8 Oct. 2020
• Hamm is absurdly handsome as always, and meant to embody the villainy of the state.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2019
• And Bea Arthur is tending bar at the Mos Eisley cantina, singing and dancing with all that scum and villainy.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2023
• But does one heroic moment make up for a season full of villainy?
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 11 July 2019
• But nor will they be lost; the movie whittles much of the villainy down to a few key players: Shang Tsung, of course, and Sub-Zero, who’s on the poster for a reason.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2021
• Hutt gangsters, bounty hunters, wretched hives of scum and/or villainy, and so on.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2018
• Sanders, who was an Uncle Vanya for our time, sinks his teeth into the thunderous villainy of Cotchipee.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• And that’s even reflected in how the show reveals his villainy — not through the eyes of Syd, but through the eyes of David, who experiences it as a twist.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 17 June 2018
• With all that going on, who can begrudge a little villainy?
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 12 July 2024
• The picture of chilling villainy, Reehl is pompous and power-hungry.
  — Amanda Rooker, Orange County Register, 3 May 2017
• Gru has put his life of villainy behind him and embraced his role as a single father to Margo, Edith, and Agnes.
  — Rendy Jones, EW.com, 29 June 2024
• When that truth became clear, the modern power of book-burning was reinforced — as was the idea that to be the one burning the books was a sure sign of villainy.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 18 May 2018
• Drama became melodrama as the winds blared out villainy and the puppets fought.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• That’s a lot for a movie that on the surface plays like a special episode of an '80s sitcom where the lovable gang goes to Europe with a healthy dose of Marvel villainy.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Dec. 2019
• So many movies depict tech bringing out the worst in people, leaving us with the sort of cop-out villainy of computers are bad!
  — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2024
• The closest any of his star turns have come to villainy are the first and fourth Rambo films, but Rambo is Frankenstein’s monster, not Dracula.
  — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Jan 2025