Definition of BADDY

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 Ossifer, the cop, is a stock baddie, tossing N-bombs and waiting for opportunities for violence. — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021 What constitutes a spoiler is a realization that the real baddie might be hiding in plain sight. — Chris Smith, BGR, 8 July 2021 From there, the episode needs to work through at least two or three twists on how the crime could’ve been committed, create a couple red herrings about potential criminals, and give the heroes a chance to catch the baddie in some dramatic way. — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 25 May 2021 Wayne plays the tough Sheriff John T. Chance, who enlists the help of an old timer, a drunk and a young gunfighter to hold in jail the brother of the big baddie. — Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 26 May 2021 Deliciously wicked and with a wardrobe to die for (quite literally), Cruella was the ultimate baddie. — Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 11 May 2021 Brett Gelman is bafflingly, if amusingly, cast as a nefarious Russian baddie named Viktor Rykov. — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2021 Is the whole first season of Invincible just a long wait until Mark figures out his dad's a baddie? — Darren Franich, EW.com, 12 Apr. 2021 For as long as there have been stages and screens, disability and disfigurement have been used as visual shorthand for evildoing — a nod to the audience that a character was a baddie to be feared. — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2020

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