baddie
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beast, brute, caitiff, devil, evildoer, fiend, heavy, hound, knave, meanie (also meany), miscreant, monster, nazi, no-good, rapscallion, rascal, reprobate, rogue, savage, scalawag (or scallywag), scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, varlet, villain, wretch
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Unlike the previous Lego games in the DC universe, Lego DC Super-Villains puts you squarely on the side of chaos, working alongside baddies like the Joker, Scarecrow, and Harley Quinn. — Sarah Leboeuf, Ars Technica, "LEGO DC Super-Villains," 22 Oct. 2018 Between the hit Descendants franchise and plenty of ~evil~ inspired beauty products to choose from, there's no doubt that even the biggest baddies of Disney contain plenty of appeal. — De Elizabeth, Teen Vogue, "The Blonds Bring Disney Villains to New York Fashion Week," 8 Sep. 2018 But none of those blink-and-you'll-miss-them references compares to the whopper prequel endorsement that comes at the end of the latest Star Wars Story when Darth Maul, the big baddie from The Phantom Menace, shows up. — Brendan Nystedt, WIRED, "Solo: A Star Wars Story," 29 May 2018 And Villanelle, one of the most delightful TV baddies in recent memory, takes gruesome pleasure in toying with the agent on her tail. — Daniel D'addario, Time, "Best TV Shows of 2018 So Far," 30 May 2018 His ultimate baddie Thanos makes very unpopular decisions like, well, wiping out half the universe based on real-world overpopulation demands for scarce resources. — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, "'Sicario' star Josh Brolin is smiling over his killer summer, even with superhero deaths," 26 June 2018 At the end of that movie, baddie Thanos snapped his fingers and destroyed half of all life in the universe. — Eliana Dockterman, Time, "Here's What Happens in the Ant-Man and the Wasp Post-Credits Scenes," 6 July 2018 Here are nine post-millennial baddies whose wickedness is often cut with bits of decency, victimization, or gentility. — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, "The best villains on TV," 6 July 2018 The final message is that virtue and vice are entwined; unlike spaghetti Westerns, the play has no straightforward goodies or baddies. — The Economist, "On stage, the saga of the Lehman brothers is a parable of America," 12 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'baddie.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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