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Example sentences for: villainous

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I also thought: How astounded we would have been, 25 years ago, to be told that the All the President's Men -ish movie of 1999 would portray CBS News as villainous and the attorney general of Mississippi as a hero.
While many scholars doubt that Empress Dowager Cixi played such a villainous role, her Summer Palace is undoubtedly lavish enough to have launched countless tales of luxury and decadence.
Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms--the villainous, superannuated Carolinians--became Statesmen.
A nation that had been placid suddenly raged with race riots and assassinations, manipulated by a crooked, villainous president and trapped in a terrible war.
Unable to subvert the machine to his will and conscience, Octavius, together with the BMI, becomes the villainous Dr. Octopus.