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The forehead slanted quickly back to the hair, which, clipped close, showed every bump of a villainous-looking head.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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The forehead slanted quickly back to the hair, which, clipped close, showed every bump of a villainous-looking head.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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And with luck, the disappearance of one would be put down to random thievery; there were plenty of villainous-looking scoundrels hanging about the fairground and the games.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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The Disney cartoon Aladdin opens with a villainous-looking character riding a camel through the desert.
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“I told you he would be all right,” grumbled Ben, scratching himself as he sat on his own bed, a wooden platform covered with a villainous-looking sack of straw as mattress.
Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009
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“I told you he would be all right,” grumbled Ben, scratching himself as he sat on his own bed, a wooden platform covered with a villainous-looking sack of straw as mattress.
Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009
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Hollander strikes me as too obviously villainous-looking for Littlefinger.
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We had to traverse thirty miles of this Campagna; and for two-and-twenty we went on and on, seeing nothing but now and then a lonely house, or a villainous-looking shepherd: with matted hair all over his face, and himself wrapped to the chin in a frowsy brown mantle, tending his sheep.
Pictures from Italy 2007
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On the middle of the down stood a wayside inn; a desolate and villainous-looking lump of lichen-spotted granite, with windows paper-patched, and rotting thatch kept down by stones and straw-banks; and at the back a rambling court-ledge of barns and walls, around which pigs and barefoot children grunted in loving communion of dirt.
Westward Ho! 2007
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In 1877, Thomson and Smith, writing about Street Life in London described the ... little villainous-looking and dirty shops in which an enormous business is transacted in the sale of milk for the manufacture of halfpenny ices.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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