Example sentences for: villainous

How can you use “villainous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the movie, Stern's rise to the top is impeded by villainous, scotch-swilling network executives.

  • 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.

  • He did not distinguish between villainous charismatic figures and virtuous ones because such distinctions, he felt, would muddy sociological comparisons.

  • Unable to subvert the machine to his will and conscience, Octavius, together with the BMI, becomes the villainous Dr. Octopus.

  • The cuddliest animals (Dalmatian puppies) are threatened with the most horrible fate (clubbing, skinning, being turned into fur coats) at the hands of the most villainous villainess, Cruella De Vil.


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