baddie

noun

bad·​die ˈba-dē 

variants or baddy

plural baddies

informal

: a bad person or thing

especially : an opponent of the hero (as in fiction or motion pictures)

Synonyms

• beast
• brute
• caitiff
• devil
• evildoer
• fiend
• heavy
• hound
• knave
• meanie
• meany
• miscreant
• monster
• nazi
• no-good
• rapscallion
• rascal
• reprobate
• rogue
• savage
• scalawag
• scallywag
• scamp
• scapegrace
• scoundrel
• varlet
• villain
• wretch

Examples of baddie in a Sentence

the actor has never been cast as a hero, but he's played every kind of baddie imaginable

Recent Examples on the Web

Bravo’s surveillance mission took a turn when an anticipated storm knocked out their video feed, just as some cartel baddies who had shown up at the target’s vacation home got to torturing him and his wife for information. —Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 1 Sep. 2024

Life is too complicated for simplistic judgments like those, despite the desperation of today’s news media to paint such goodies and baddies. —Joe Utichi, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2024

Also, apologies to Kang, Ultron and even Thanos, but there’s no bigger Marvel Comics baddie than Doctor Doom. —Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024

In the first episode, Kite Man (voiced by Matt Oberg) and Golden Glider (Stephanie Hsu) go on a few missions and beat up a few baddies, but their story is building to something far more ordinary than the chaos all around them. —Ben Travers, IndieWire, 31 July 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1872, in the meaning defined above