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
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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
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“Baddie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baddie. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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