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Noun
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Andy, once a centuries-old immortal who has now lost her healing powers, must race across continents to recover her magic, all the while facing deadly mercenaries and ancient evils.—
Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
4 July 2025 -
The motive can be summarized as pure agency, pure evil; in other words, premeditated murder.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
4 July 2025
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Lex is a tech billionaire very much in the Musk/Zuckerberg mode, but Hoult gives him sufficient ambiguity to blur the lines of his villainy between someone genuinely concerned about humankind in thrall to an alien and someone who just wants absolute power at any price.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
8 July 2025
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Cosby’s good guys do things that outpace the rankest villainy in the work of other crime writers.—
Vulture Editors,
Vulture,
8 July 2025
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk and their universe of sycophants who worship wickedness can’t be changed by continues eye contact.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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May God bless the entire Trump administration with swift repentance from this wickedness.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
19 Feb. 2025
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Mueller’s chronicle of prevarication, moral turpitude, and incompetence is dispiriting, but his presentation of rigorous legal reasoning and strict adherence to statutes, case law, and procedural rules is inspiring.—
Stephen Kotkin,
Foreign Affairs,
21 May 2019
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But in the mid-1800s sentiment around lotteries had begun to nosedive in the U.S. as concerns rose about their moral turpitude and by the end of the century, Congress outlawed the shipment of lottery tickets across state lines, ending most sales.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA TODAY,
11 Jan. 2025
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While working together on The Unit, David Mamet once told you that good drama isn’t a choice between good and bad; good drama is the choice between two bads.—
Max Gao,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 Jan. 2025
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Reports out of fall camp haven’t been super favorable to their offense, and while the defense will, again, be top-notch, a team with this bad of an offense cannot be trusted.—
Austin Mock,
The Athletic,
19 Aug. 2024
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Saturday, the team righted some of those wrongs, even with a sloppy second-half performance.—
Emma Moon,
Charlotte Observer,
13 July 2025
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Over the following weeks her show swells into a Greek chorus of one man’s wrongs.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
7 July 2025
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The series, arranged every year by the Hartford Business Improvement District, opens July 12 with a film where the supernatural evildoing has a Connecticut connection.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
6 June 2025
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And some will remember the evildoing of those who confected the Trump-Russia hoax, the obstructionist chicanery of the authors of the impeachment trial, and the questionable conduct of the Democratic candidate and his family in dubious financial endeavors in Ukraine and China.—
Conrad Black,
National Review,
14 Oct. 2020
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Studies consistently reveal perfectionism’s links to anxiety, depression and other ills.—
Francine Russo,
Scientific American,
24 June 2025
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And then there were the potential ills of a conventional approach, like fumes spewed by laminate flooring.—
Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
28 June 2025
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“Villainousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/villainousness. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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