(n.) The act of a villain; a deed of deep depravity; a crime.
Example Sentences:
(1) A quick graze of the internet will provide fan theories to feed any hunches you’ve long felt about the happy-go-lucky companionship of Timon and Pumbaa, and their effective adoption of baby Simba, in The Lion King – or indeed the foppish villainy of the same film’s Scar, an alpha lion who has never found a mate in the pride.
(2) He can detect villainy in a stream of water trickling down a gutter, in the hiss of a sprinkler, in the greenness of a lawn.
(3) Photograph: Allstar Calvin J Candie – Django Unchained There's nothing as effective as a smooth-talking devil when it comes to villainy, and Leonardo DiCaprio pulls just the right amount of oily charm out of the bastard bag here to match his mephistophelean beard.
(4) Every act of villainy Michael can conceive of, Janine has already accomplished, and picked her teeth with the bones of her victims.
(5) Navarro’s accusations against Murdoch outlets inserted a sub-plot into the conventional Trumpian narrative about Chinese villainy.
(6) In the 20 months since Fifa banned the Uruguayan for sinking his teeth into Chiellini, the world governing body has been exposed as a hive of scum and villainy while Suárez has confirmed that he is the best striker on the planet.
(7) Fan reaction was overwhelmingly positive — Reddit, notoriously a wretched hive of scum and villainy (and sarcasm), had plenty of in-jokey commentary.
(8) When the regime tries to counter a peaceful demonstration by using thugs … there are few words that do justice to this villainy and I think it can only hasten that regime's departure."
(9) Chamcha, the inauthentic, uptight and elitist migrant to London, constantly mocked for these qualities while in Bombay, is allowed to redeem himself, while the indigenously rooted and social-climbing villain cannot escape the deserts of his villainy.
(10) Having marked out a special line in sadistic villainy as Ronald Merrick in his career-defining, Bafta award-winning performance in The Jewel in the Crown (1984) , Granada TV’s adaptation for ITV of Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet novels, he built a portfolio of characters both good and bad who were invariably presented with layers of technical accomplishment and emotional complexity.
(11) Two centuries later, Ruskin echoed these sentiments: Caravaggio, he claimed, painted “for the sake of the shadows”, and he was a “ruffian … distinguished only by his preference for candlelight and reinforcement of villainy”.
(12) It was another example of his hard-faced villainy and he will have delighted at seeing Arsenal fall into the trap and never climb back out.
(13) His Richard III, suggested one critic, looked like the "unhappy result of a one-night stand between Père Ubu and Gertrude Stein", who never got over his own villainy.
Villany
Definition:
(n.) See Villainy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Argentina's team doctor Donato Villani was reported in the Sun last week as saying: "Sex is a normal part of social life and is not a problem.
(2) (Capitanio, N., De Nitto, E., Villani, G., Capitanio, G., and Papa, S. (1990) Biochemistry 29, 2939-2944).