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单词 villainy
释义
villainy
noun[U]
uk
/ˈvɪl.ə.ni/us
/ˈvɪl.ə.ni/
evilbehaviour:
恶行
Little does herealisewhat villainy andtreacherylurkin the littletown.他没有意识到，在这个小城中潜藏着怎样的恶行和背叛。
Hisrealvillainylayin hisattitudeto women.他真正的恶行在于他对女人的态度。
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villainous
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  • Fewnovelistshave been moreconvincedof thelinkbetweengamblingand villainy.
  • He doesn'tquiteprojectthenecessaryicy,flamboyantvillainy for therole.
  • Manyholidaymakershavefoundthemselves introuble,victimsofnaivety,stupidity, andplainvillainy.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Bad and wrong behaviour
  • act out
  • angel
  • ASB
  • astray
  • atyourworstidiom
  • beup to no goodidiom
  • go off the railsidiom
  • go round
  • impossible
  • in flagrante
  • incorrigible
  • raise hellidiom
  • rakish
  • rakishly
  • rakishness
  • rascally
  • unworthy
  • while the cat's away, the mice will playidiom
  • worst
  • wrongdoing
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(Definition ofvillainyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofvillainy

villainy
Such accounts abounded in the comfort that ifvillainywere so transparent, then capture could hardly fail to be imminent.
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He found in selfhood a form ofvillainywhich contradicted the community he saw as salvational.
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Furthermore, 'villainy' did not equate to dependence, since some older people were reproached for refusing to accept help, as 'acting too proud'.
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The emphasis on the diminutive and the innocent happiness of the child highlight the failure of innocence; "pretty little prattling innocence" succumbs to cruelvillainy.
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In these cases, the risks that drivers face and the deaths that actually occur are due to deliberatevillainy.
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It obscures visible marks ofvillainybut ultimately unleashes it.
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Their 'villainy' appeared to reside in not being communal beings, and in distancing themselves from reciprocity and participation.
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In that case, the cause would have been duplication and error, notvillainy, as some of us suspect.
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However, once they are under the control of that landlord, the rents go up and thevillainystarts.
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Who are we who have not suffered these dreadful strokes not of fortune, but ofvillainy, to preach forgiveness?
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There is no monopoly ofvillainy, nor any monopoly of sainthood.
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I have no reason to believe that this particularvillainyis worse in my constituency than in any other.
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That burden is brought about not throughvillainyand indolence but by chance and circumstance.
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The tragedy is all the greater because the story is one in which there are no villains and almost novillainy.
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We most certainly do not accuse any of them ofvillainyor anything remotely approaching it.
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