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or baddy
as in villain
a mean, evil, or unprincipled person
the actor has never been cast as a hero, but he's played every kind of baddie imaginable
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Recent Examples of baddie
The concoction has been dubbed Chinese baddie tea, a nod to its ties to traditional Chinese medicine.
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Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 18 Feb. 2026
Husband and wife duo Sheen and Lundberg, who have previously collaborated on series Staged and movie The Last Train To Christmas, will voice Ivy’s off-kilter parents, while Lucas will portray baddie Clawdelia Thorn.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2026
And exploring all of those through the attempt to save the world from AI, which is sort of the big scary baddie in our world now.
—Fielding Buck, Daily News, 10 Feb. 2026
Whence the baddie of season one?
—Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2026
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Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 18 Feb. 2026
Husband and wife duo Sheen and Lundberg, who have previously collaborated on series Staged and movie The Last Train To Christmas, will voice Ivy’s off-kilter parents, while Lucas will portray baddie Clawdelia Thorn.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2026
And exploring all of those through the attempt to save the world from AI, which is sort of the big scary baddie in our world now.
—Fielding Buck, Daily News, 10 Feb. 2026
Whence the baddie of season one?
—Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for baddie
Noun
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There’s also a Nazi villain, a band director from hell and even a Joker.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
4 Mar. 2026
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Also in the Lanterns cast is Ulrich Thomsen as Sinestro, a chief Green Lantern villain of DC Comics; Garret Dillahunt as William Macon, described as a modern cowboy; and Poorna Jagannathan as Zoe, a potential love interest for John.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Bay Hill was a brute before the round was halted for just over an hour because of heavy rain.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
7 Mar. 2026
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While Buckley's Bride finds new agency on their road trip, Bale’s Frank is a complementary partner-in-crime, exuding tough-guy swagger but also man-child innocence as a vulnerable brute with a poet’s soul.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
4 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The Bride not looking like a monster and retaining her desirability after reanimation is common, but only sometimes interrogated.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
7 Mar. 2026
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Whale, and later fellow directors Franc Rodman, Branagh and now Gyllenhaal, imagined what might have happened if Frankenstein had completed the female monster.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN Money,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Baddie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baddie. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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