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
Her findings not only put her on the radar of the season's baddies, but lead her to Peter.
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Feb. 2026
Chris Pratt is known for having action-forward roles in movies – wrestling supervillains, fighting video-game baddies, befriending dinosaurs, occasionally playing baseball, that sort of thing.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 22 Jan. 2026
Teaming up with fellow Traitor Rob to speak in code and murder in plain sight was absolutely masterful, and helping keep the group of baddies together has been her strength.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
My fellow baddies who brunch will love the effervescent Bellini Spritz, made with all-natural peach, guava, passion fruit and strawberry, or the Tropical Mai Tai, made with fresh pineapple, Key lime, and amaretto.
—Chala June, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Oct. 2025
So many songs for Black Star were born in the strip club or in the midst of baddies.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025
The second film, in theaters now via Lionsgate, finds the actor much more in control after being terrorized by the mysterious title baddies in the first film, a reimagining of the 2008 hit.
—William Earl, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
For my corporate baddies who have thought about dabbling into entrepreneurship Nicaila Matthews Okome has created the blueprint.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 23 Sep. 2025
The idea is to navigate tight and claustrophobic paths in between enemy projectiles by nimbly flying around and blasting the baddies with your craft’s weapons.
—Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Feb. 2026
Chris Pratt is known for having action-forward roles in movies – wrestling supervillains, fighting video-game baddies, befriending dinosaurs, occasionally playing baseball, that sort of thing.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 22 Jan. 2026
Teaming up with fellow Traitor Rob to speak in code and murder in plain sight was absolutely masterful, and helping keep the group of baddies together has been her strength.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
My fellow baddies who brunch will love the effervescent Bellini Spritz, made with all-natural peach, guava, passion fruit and strawberry, or the Tropical Mai Tai, made with fresh pineapple, Key lime, and amaretto.
—Chala June, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Oct. 2025
So many songs for Black Star were born in the strip club or in the midst of baddies.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025
The second film, in theaters now via Lionsgate, finds the actor much more in control after being terrorized by the mysterious title baddies in the first film, a reimagining of the 2008 hit.
—William Earl, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
For my corporate baddies who have thought about dabbling into entrepreneurship Nicaila Matthews Okome has created the blueprint.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 23 Sep. 2025
The idea is to navigate tight and claustrophobic paths in between enemy projectiles by nimbly flying around and blasting the baddies with your craft’s weapons.
—Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for baddies
Noun
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Even the Dodgers, the cartoon villains of spending, kind of sort of have a limit.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
18 Feb. 2026
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Head coach Patty Gasso and her bunch remain the biggest villains in the Texas softball universe.—
Thomas Jones,
Austin American Statesman,
6 Feb. 2026
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For much of his career, Skarsgård has gravitated toward characters who weaponize physical presence — Vikings, tech titans and mythic brutes whose power is immediately legible.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
9 Jan. 2026
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Credit to producers Tim Zinnemann and George Linder for selecting a veritable array of brutes to wage battle with Arnold.—
Duane Byrge,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Nov. 2025
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Set between Seasons 2 and 3 of Stranger Things, Tales from ’85 returns viewers to Hawkins in the stark winter of 1985, where the original characters must confront new monsters and unravel a paranormal mystery that is terrorizing their town.—
Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
11 Feb. 2026
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Other Avina Comics characters include a mariachi man who fights monsters using a silver string guitar and a luchador wrestler on a mission.—
Anna Ortiz,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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Thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill, ICE has new funding to expand detention space to keep these criminals off American streets before they are removed for good from our communities.—
Jeff Capellini,
CBS News,
20 Feb. 2026
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His office is more concerned about arresting police officers than prosecuting criminals.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
20 Feb. 2026
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