baddies

noun

plural of baddie
as in villains
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 baddies The trio go toe-to-toe against a whole host of baddies, most notably the nefarious monkey Mojo Jojo. — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 25 July 2026 Often in these cases the focus is on the opposition’s best player, but aliens cannot be cartoon baddies, so that rules out Lionel Messi. — Nick Miller, New York Times, 14 July 2026 ResMed started its baddies page this spring and began creating social media content with CPAP users. — Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 11 July 2026 Mando is still a New Republic contractor, and the Imperials are still a threat, though down a few baddies. — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 23 May 2026 In addition to classic villains like Joker, Bane, Penguin, Riddler, Poison Ivy, Two-Face and Mister Freeze, there are more obscure baddies like Condiment King and Kite-Man lurking around the city. — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 22 May 2026 My wife and son soon joined in, taking turns solving puzzles and beating up baddies in hilarious fashion. — Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 22 May 2026 In his films, there are no baddies, and yet the stories work so well. — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026 Whatever could those big baddies be doing? — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for baddies
  1. villains
  2. brutes
  3. monsters
  4. criminals
Noun
  • Em details how Alan Rickman who played Hans Gruber, one of the most iconic villains in film history, offered director John McTiernan several key ideas that improved the film.
    — Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • That moment sealed his fate as one of the biggest Cubs villains in Cubs-Cardinals history.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2026
Definition of villains
Noun
  • These brutes commonly exceed 50 pounds.
    — Keith Sutton, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2026
  • In Raspail’s tale, hordes of impoverished and dark-​skinned brutes from India descend onto French shores by way of rafts, the first wave of an invasion of the civilized West by the brown-​skinned developing world.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026
Definition of brutes
Noun
  • Over the last two seasons of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the titular demigod (Walker Scobell) has faced off against a minotaur, sailed to the sea of monsters, been chased by Cerberus, and even magically transformed into a guinea pig.
    — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 21 July 2026
  • With the franchise’s trademark blend of extreme gore and dark humor, the Evil Dead backstory centers on the ancient Book of the Dead that unleashes supernatural evil forces and twists victims into sadistic, shape-shifting, near-invincible monsters.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 21 July 2026
Definition of monsters
Noun
  • The detective-heroines (and especially the actress-detectives) in this canon are careful about how performance might be extended to social duplicity, dishonesty, and fraud—but the lady criminals of Victorian detective fiction cross this line easily.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 July 2026
  • From 1873 to 1991, the island served as Costa Rica’s principal penitentiary, where some of the country’s worst criminals were sent to serve often short and torturous sentences.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 24 July 2026
Definition of criminals

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“Baddies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baddies. Accessed 30 Jul. 2026.

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