bad boy

noun

: a person who flouts convention

a literary bad boy

Example Sentences

He has become known as the bad boy of the American television industry.

Recent Examples on the Web Following a deadly crash, bad boy race car driver Cliff Steele's (Fraser) brain is implanted into a clunky robot body by the morally ambiguous scientist Niles Caulder (Timothy Dalton). —

Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2023 Combined with a devilishly charming highlight intro (that gets even funnier when paired with his other skins), Hanzo gets elevated from smoldering bad boy to Pedro-Pascal-level heartthrob. —

WIRED, 13 Feb. 2023 Leviss was at one time engaged to British bad boy DJ James Kennedy, but according to US Weekly, tensions arose following a Thanksgiving trip. —

Lauren Sanchez, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2023 The heartthrob with dimples for days starred on the soap opera from 1994 to 1996, playing resident bad boy Matt Clark. —

Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2023 Even the debut episode, which is built around tennis bad boy Nick Kyrgios and his career-long struggle to handle massive expectations, does not address the numerous on- and off-court run-ins he’s had with competitors over the years. —

Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2023 You'll be obsessed with how easily this bad boy will add polish to your more neutral outfits. —

Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 23 Feb. 2023 Sonoran hot dogs are typically priced between $3.50 and $5, but this bad boy clocks in at $18 with no sides, not even a bulb onion or one of those roasted yellow chile güeros that set your mouth on fire. —

Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2021 Will Smith was a bad boy at the Oscars, but that won't kill the Bad Boys franchise. —

Brendan Morrow, The Week, 31 Jan. 2023 See More

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