hand-rubbing

You want to make him or her nasty and evil, but not so much so that they're cackling, hand-rubbing cartoons.

Word of the Day 2008

You want to make him or her nasty and evil, but not so much so that they're cackling, hand-rubbing cartoons.

May 2008 2008

Someone please tell me why this jackass president hasn't been impeached, including the hand-rubbing, sidewinder, 'Evil Dick Cheney' to boot.

The Truth Just Keeps Getting Truer and Truer 2007

Cue much anticipatory hand-rubbing by several western banking giants.

Chinese Bank Exec May Have IPO Plans 2006

A sinisterly-laughing, hand-rubbing, crystal-ball-gazing sorcerer sends a couple of thugs into a mausoleum to retrieve an artifact--a miniature, jewel-encrusted silver casket.

Archive 2005-12-11 2005

Despite his hand-rubbing hopes that it would be a “100-ton” book,47 the novel sold only 24,000 copies in its first six months, less than half the figure Clemens regarded as minimally successful.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Despite his hand-rubbing hopes that it would be a “100-ton” book,47 the novel sold only 24,000 copies in its first six months, less than half the figure Clemens regarded as minimally successful.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

A sinisterly-laughing, hand-rubbing, crystal-ball-gazing sorcerer sends a couple of thugs into a mausoleum to retrieve an artifact--a miniature, jewel-encrusted silver casket.

BLOOD OF DRACULA by Jack Hamilton Teed (Mills and Boon 1977) 2005

Any gleeful hand-rubbing by the Clintonistas is by-the-by; let's cross that bridge when we come to it.

Seppuku 2004

Even Anthony Trollope indulged himself now and then in a bout of hand-rubbing Schadenfreude when a villain such as Mr. Slope got his comeuppance.

Nice Work Banville, John 1995