Definition of "villainously" []

• In a villainous manner; in the manner of a villain; evilly. (adjective)

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• "And yet it is bedbugs that have become the eight-legged bête noir of our times, skittering villainously through countless alarmist articles and local-news segments."
• "He villainously congratulates himself upon his discerning quick thoughts in thwarting his aged friendrecalling after villains identical to Richard of Gloucester as good as Iago who revel in their dastardly betrayal of those who trust them."
• "And even today the astonished tourist is treated to two of the world's most villainously ugly buildings, the vast wedding cake of the monument to Victor Emmanuel II and, across the Tiber, the Palazzo di Giustizia—the latter so preternaturally hideous, in its gross over-ornamentation, that this writer, gazing at it once for a long half-hour, was afraid of being transformed into a toad or a snake."