How to Use bad guy in a Sentence
bad guy
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There is a good guy and there is a bad guy.
—Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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But Nus is a bad guy through and through.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2026
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One thing that’s cool about it is there’s no bad guy in this one.
—Chris Smith, BGR, 25 Nov. 2022
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Who are their friends and who are the real bad guys?
—Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2026
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And most of the time his sense of who the bad guy was proved spot on.
—Paul Letersky, Time, 22 July 2021
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The bad guy becomes the good guy and gets the girl in the end.
—Robert Philpot, star-telegram, 17 May 2018
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This is a story in which all the parts are played by bad guys.
—Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2023
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There are a lot of crazies in the city and a lot of bad guys.
—Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 11 Jan. 2020
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If the bad guys are trying to sack you, just give ’em the ball.
—Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 17 Aug. 2019
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My first job is hold off the bad guys, keep them off the keeper.
—Terry Monahan, Pomerado News, 10 Jan. 2018
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For their part, the bad guys run a gamut from hapless to pure evil.
—The Economist, 4 July 2019
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And Nik's not a bad guy, either.
—Danielle Parker, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
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And Nik's not a bad guy, either.
—Danielle Parker, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
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And the best story is there’s a bad guy, or there’s a bad alien.
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2026
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There’s no such thing as a good deal with a bad guy — or vice versa.
—Margot MacHol Bisnow, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
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The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
—Lukas Mikelionis, Fox News, 4 June 2018
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The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun!
—Alex Siquig, GQ, 1 Mar. 2018
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The thing that spooked me most in all this though, wasn’t the bad guys being bad guys.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2026
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Boys and men are only human, and there are good guys and bad guys.
—Matt K. Lewis, Twin Cities, 5 Aug. 2025
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The hardest thing to teach our kids is that no one’s just a good guy or a bad guy.
—Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
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So maybe just remember who the bad guy is here (ie, the virus).
—Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 22 May 2020
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Good guys were really bad guys.
—Judy Berman, Time, 23 Feb. 2026
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The mindset is quite simply, if there’s a bad guy, find the bad guy.
—Ryan Anderson, Arkansas Online, 25 Aug. 2025
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Just have Tom Cruise as the bad guy in space that you guys have to go stop.
—Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 7 May 2021
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One set of bad guys goes, and another set marches in.
—Nolan Finley, Twin Cities, 6 Mar. 2026
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And the story had a bad guy that the public was already primed to hate.
—Gabriel Popkin, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
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Of course, Goldwyn doesn’t only play suave bad guys.
—Dan Heching, CNN Money, 20 Jan. 2026
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Wayne always said that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun was a good guy with a gun.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2024
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The purpose of this law is to protect the campus if a bad guy comes with a gun.
—Scott Travis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 July 2018
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And that the bad guy had blue eyes, was blonde and spoke perfect English.
—Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 8 Dec. 2022
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