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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Examples of baddie in a Sentence
the actor has never been cast as a hero, but he's played every kind of baddie imaginable
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As she’s poised in a YA triangle between selfish dreamboat Ryan and earnest nerd Collin (Taeho K), JJ just happens (or not) to have a run-in with a gang of baddies presided over by Nancy, an oligarch’s moll played by Anna Faris in wet-look platinum hair and magenta lipstick and raccoon eyeshadow.
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 July 2024
Their entire existence is meant to serve the world’s biggest baddie.
—Rendy Jones, EW.com, 29 June 2024
Chiang himself no longer comes across as the cartoonish, incompetent baddie depicted in Barbara Tuchman’s influential 1970 tome, Stilwell and the American Experience in China.
—John Pomfret, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
The sequel brings back Steve Carell as Gru, a recovering supervillain turned secret agent, and pits him against Will Ferrell as a French baddie named Maxime Le Mal.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 4 July 2024
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 July 2024
Their entire existence is meant to serve the world’s biggest baddie.
—Rendy Jones, EW.com, 29 June 2024
Chiang himself no longer comes across as the cartoonish, incompetent baddie depicted in Barbara Tuchman’s influential 1970 tome, Stilwell and the American Experience in China.
—John Pomfret, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
The sequel brings back Steve Carell as Gru, a recovering supervillain turned secret agent, and pits him against Will Ferrell as a French baddie named Maxime Le Mal.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 4 July 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 26 Jul. 2024.
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