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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By then the witchy girl was everywhere, forming outcast covens in The Craft, fighting supernatural baddies in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed, all grown up and empowered to destroy abusive boyfriends in Practical Magic.
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Judy Berman, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024
And Ghost had two women in the business making men quake: Noma and day-one baddie Monet, played by Mary J. Blige.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
Dozens — that's right, dozens — of classic Disney baddies are headed to the Orlando resort's Hollywood Studios park next summer, as the company announced Tuesday that a new villains show will replace the long-operating Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy production in 2025.
—EW.com, 3 Sep. 2024
The haunted house stages feature a light bulb that Captain Astro has to pick to reveal invisible platforms while the level called Free Big Brother! has players unshackling a giant robot who has been tied down by baddies.
—Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2024
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Judy Berman, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024
And Ghost had two women in the business making men quake: Noma and day-one baddie Monet, played by Mary J. Blige.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
Dozens — that's right, dozens — of classic Disney baddies are headed to the Orlando resort's Hollywood Studios park next summer, as the company announced Tuesday that a new villains show will replace the long-operating Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy production in 2025.
—EW.com, 3 Sep. 2024
The haunted house stages feature a light bulb that Captain Astro has to pick to reveal invisible platforms while the level called Free Big Brother! has players unshackling a giant robot who has been tied down by baddies.
—Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2024
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“Baddie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baddie. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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