The poor Italian regained his caustic smile as he uttered that wise, villanous Italian maxim.
The sidelong, lowering, villanousexpression which had formerly been but occasional was now habitual and heightened.
Of all villanous roads, those outside Skutari are the most depraved.
We were still pulling over some things when our driver, whom we call Suleiman because he has such a holy, villanous look, came suddenly to the entrance, waving frantically.
These gave in such villanous and incoherent depositions, that he must have been blind indeed who did not plainly perceive their falsehood and malice.
Though his hands were never out of his pockets, he carried his head like a man of character; but the full force of a bold, insolent, vindictive expression was split and spoilt by the most villanous of squints.
He even hesitated, pannikin in hand, as he looked from one man to the other; but the villanous trio merely stared at him with fixed eyeballs, and at last he raised it to his lips and swallowed a pint at one draught.
The replenished camp-fire lit their villanousfaces with a rich red glow.
It would also appear that, finding "villanous company would be the spoil of him," he has exchanged his old acquaintances for a lot of less sporting characters.
A villanous whistle was perpetrated at a short distance.
The mode by which young Clifford had hitherto obtained supplies at last became unavailing, and criminal means were cautiously proposed by his villanous confederates.
You shall not die in that way, you villanous schoolmaster!
His schemes are villanous ones enough, that is certain: but he knows that if I were to peach, I should lose the annuity from him, and get nothing from any one else; so he cannot be afraid of that.
The youth's eyes sparkled as he read; and the prospect of liberty and safety which opened before him blotted out at once from memory the dark and villanous step which he must take to reach them.
That portrait would have found more dignified place in the reception-rooms if the face had not been forbiddingly ugly, and the picture itself a villanous daub.
You rogue, here's lime in this sack too: there is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous man: yet a coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime in it, a villanous coward.
There's villanous news abroad: here was Sir John Bracy from your father; you must to the Court in the morning.
But, alas, for the villanous dog; no sooner had he got loose and scampered off up the road, than he sees a flock of sheep some distance across the fields, and away he pitched.
The Moore's abus'd by some mostvillanous Knaue, Some base notorious Knaue, some scuruy Fellow.
A knocker painted in villanous green-a lion-headed knocker, of grave deportment, looking as savage as lion can well do in this chivalrous atmosphere, looks admonitiously at him.
If you will go with John, he will help you to get rid of that villanous disguise.
The character of the Jews, as sharpers, is derived from the cruel and villanous proscriptions, which they have suffered from the bigotry of Christians in every part of Europe.
It is but just to the French Romanists to state, that as a body they repudiated and took no part in the villanous attempt upon Gavazzi's life; the assailants were almost exclusively Irish Romanists, who form nearly one-fifth of the population.
We had rather more than we wanted of her and her villanoushusband in the first volume; and now nothing.
I am busy rigging up one of these wonderful new Yankee spoons with a view to killing a villanous pike, who has got into the troutwater.
But there remained one man whose conversation and teaching, though not, perhaps, so openly outrageously villanous as that of the worthy Harvey, still had a very unfortunate effect on his character.
See to what you expose me, fellow, by yourvillanous meanness!
One of these villanous hostelries, in which Dr Tschudi several times attempted to sleep, is described by him with a minuteness that will rather startle the squeamish amongst his readers.
Too honest by half to such rascals as those villanous cheating money-lenders, whoever they may be, eb adta!
He himself informed against Quintus Salvidienus, who was forming a villanous combination against Caesar, who, having been condemned, committed suicide.
But nothing could wipe away the long interval of agony in which he and she had been the dupe of a villanous trickster and a jealous woman.
In his rapture at finding the wife he had mourned as dead, the young man had for a time almost forgotten the villanous plotter who had kept her hidden from him.
These his former connection with the Carbonari enabled him to track to their refuge in London; and his knowledge of the characters he had to deal with fitted him well for the villanous task he undertook.
Thus is immunity insured to the villanous actors in the trade.
Of all the villanouscountenances that I have ever seen, that of Legge excelled.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "villanous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
