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or baddy
as in villain
a mean, evil, or unprincipled person
the actor has never been cast as a hero, but he's played every kind of baddie imaginable
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Recent Examples of baddie
Some of the scenes – like this one with Superman laser-beaming a bunch of baddies – looks like a weird cutscene from a video game.
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Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
There’s less of Reeves’ tireless gun fu and more of de Armas just picking up random objects and using them on a host of baddies.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 5 June 2025
The vehicles have buttons that throw digital turtle shells — hopefully at Bowser and his associated baddies and not at Mario and Princess Peach.
—Todd Anderson, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
But what really makes A View to a Kill sing are the baddies, starting at the top with the Nazi-bred, ex-KGB, genetically altered microchip tycoon, horse breeder, and airship enthusiast Max Zorin, played with characteristic flamboyance by Walken.
—EW.com, 24 May 2025
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Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
There’s less of Reeves’ tireless gun fu and more of de Armas just picking up random objects and using them on a host of baddies.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 5 June 2025
The vehicles have buttons that throw digital turtle shells — hopefully at Bowser and his associated baddies and not at Mario and Princess Peach.
—Todd Anderson, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
But what really makes A View to a Kill sing are the baddies, starting at the top with the Nazi-bred, ex-KGB, genetically altered microchip tycoon, horse breeder, and airship enthusiast Max Zorin, played with characteristic flamboyance by Walken.
—EW.com, 24 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for baddie
Noun
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Two of the game’s most brilliant villains have matured into eloquent eulogists.—
Simon Vozick-Levinson,
Rolling Stone,
30 June 2025
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For an industry which has long been treated by the television and film industries as a dirty, dangerous business run by unethical, cartoon-ish villains like J.R. Ewing, such a balanced portrayal is a welcome change, indeed.—
David Blackmon,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2025
Noun
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Call of Cthulhu flipped a lot of gaming conventions on their head with characters that degraded over time and scenarios that rewarded fleeing monsters instead of slaying them.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
3 July 2025
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Murphy also ordered the feds to provide the monsters with interpreters and counsel.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
2 July 2025
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“Baddie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baddie. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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