Meaning of villainly | Babel Free

Definitions

Characteristic of a villain.

Examples

“By the ox of St. Luke, thou idle, cogging knave—thou rascally, miscreant spy, if ever I catch thee dogging my footsteps, by day or night, or concerning thyself in any way about act of mine, I will think no more of drawing my dagger across thy villainly throat, than I would of slicing a melon or cucumber at my luncheon.”

“And though he has paid the penalty of his crime with his worthless life, yet many of his compeers in villainly adventure still live, and his daring and sworn associates are scattered throughout the northern portion of this land;”

“Shirley’s is a world of young lovers, delightfully protesting their eternal constancy, of villainly villains, of unscrupulous servants, and of “humour” characters such as seize and transport the imagination:[…]”

“Strikingly effective performance as the villainly Vitellia…”

“During the hours the villainly Mandel Pukur fellows kept us standing I became exceedingly thirsty, and also hungry, but gradually the need to urinate became of even more pressing urgency.”

“Emphases were given to the description of the actors' facial features and expression to fit the characters into righteous, moral and energetic types, as contrasted with the landlords' villainly physical appearance.”

“Her pastiche of a villainly adventure is far more exciting than most originals in the genre.”

“Le roman de la rose, ed. A. Strubel, 2097 ff: “See to it that you will not use these dirty and vulgar words, and also see to it that you don’t open your mouth to utter villainly things. I do not consider him courtly who calls the dirty and ugly by name.””

“Take that, you villainly villain!”

“In these glorious envisionings, the ministerial Brainard, effete and villainly, had looked on gloomily from his place at the foot of the table, next to the kitchen maid.[…]Brainard—it had to be Brainard, Henry knew, not effete and villainly at all, but a perfectly ordinary fellow—[…]”

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