vilenesses

Its cruelties, and misunderstandings, and stupidities, and vilenesses have been perpetrated.

Jack London's Nonfiction Collection of Unpublished Book Forwards 2010

I had but just heard of some of his vilenesses, when I sat down to write; so my indignation was raised.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

The Mrs Winterfields of this world allow themselves little spiteful pleasures of this kind, repenting of them, no doubt, in those frequent moments in which they talk to their friends of their own terrible vilenesses.

The Belton Estate 2004

On those vilenesses history looks back with an eye of disgust.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

Especially around these shores there is scarcely a spot that hath not been violated in all times by vilenesses and impurities such as the Apostle saith it is a shame even to speak of.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

Even the shelters provided for the officers, and the hospital hastily erected for the sick, were scarcely fit to stable horses in, and were by official decree doomed to be given to the flames as the surest way of getting rid of the vermin and other vilenesses, of which they contained so rich a store.

With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry

Winterfields of this world allow themselves little spiteful pleasures of this kind, repenting of them, no doubt, in those frequent moments in which they talk to their friends of their own terrible vilenesses.

The Belton Estate Anthony Trollope 1848

The penalties for the production of such vilenesses are much higher than for simple possession of them too.

Forbes.com: News Tim Worstall 2011

These vilenesses are so ignoble, that for his own sake a man of honor (whether as a writer or a reader) shrinks from dealing with any case to which they do really adhere; such a case belongs to the province of police courts, not of literature.

Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

These vilenesses are so ignoble, that for his own sake a man of honor (whether as a writer or a reader) shrinks from dealing with any case to which they do really adhere; such a case belongs to the province of police courts, not of literature.

Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822