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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the actor has never been cast as a hero, but he's played every kind of baddie imaginable
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When the hero ducks so that one baddie punches the other one, then backflips over a banister to two-leg kick the guy coming up from beneath?
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Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2024
The real baddie, looming up behind the whole narrative, is King Herod.
—N.t. Wright, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
To fight back, Toons work together to complete tasks and use silly gags like cream pies and seltzer bottles to defeat the baddies and reclaim their town.
—J. Clara Chan, WIRED, 24 Dec. 2024
For the decolonial baddies Beaded Carabiner $35 Lenape Reserve
These gorgeous beaded carabiners are available in a number of colorways.
—James Factora, Them, 5 Dec. 2024
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Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2024
The real baddie, looming up behind the whole narrative, is King Herod.
—N.t. Wright, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
To fight back, Toons work together to complete tasks and use silly gags like cream pies and seltzer bottles to defeat the baddies and reclaim their town.
—J. Clara Chan, WIRED, 24 Dec. 2024
For the decolonial baddies Beaded Carabiner $35 Lenape Reserve
These gorgeous beaded carabiners are available in a number of colorways.
—James Factora, Them, 5 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for baddie
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“Baddie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baddie. Accessed 14 Jan. 2025.
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