variants
or baddy
plural baddies
informal
: a bad person or thing
especially
: an opponent of the hero (as in fiction or motion pictures)
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Examples of baddie in a Sentence
the actor has never been cast as a hero, but he's played every kind of baddie imaginable
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Faran Tahir plays the real baddie of the season, a character that had infiltrated Truman’s AI robot and DNA hacking lab.
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Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 May 2024
Now, a new villain is joining the Who pantheon: RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Jinkx Monsoon has officially joined the series, making her debut as the music-manipulating baddie Maestro.
—Devan Coggan, EW.com, 11 May 2024
My fellow baddies who brunch will love the effervescent Bellini Spritz, made with all-natural peach, guava, passion fruit and strawberry, or the Tropical Mai Tai, made with fresh pineapple, Key lime, and amaretto.
—Chala June, Bon Appétit, 17 Apr. 2024
The story here is very slight: With the help of his girlfriend Mary (Amy Adams), Segel’s Gary and his Muppet friend Walter must foil a plot by an oil-hungry baddie (played by Chris Cooper, with a full-fledged maniacal laugh) to destroy the Muppet Studio for more of that liquid gold.
—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2024
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Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 May 2024
Now, a new villain is joining the Who pantheon: RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Jinkx Monsoon has officially joined the series, making her debut as the music-manipulating baddie Maestro.
—Devan Coggan, EW.com, 11 May 2024
My fellow baddies who brunch will love the effervescent Bellini Spritz, made with all-natural peach, guava, passion fruit and strawberry, or the Tropical Mai Tai, made with fresh pineapple, Key lime, and amaretto.
—Chala June, Bon Appétit, 17 Apr. 2024
The story here is very slight: With the help of his girlfriend Mary (Amy Adams), Segel’s Gary and his Muppet friend Walter must foil a plot by an oil-hungry baddie (played by Chris Cooper, with a full-fledged maniacal laugh) to destroy the Muppet Studio for more of that liquid gold.
—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2024
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“Baddie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baddie. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.
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