variants
or baddy
plural baddies
informal
: a bad person or thing
especially
: an opponent of the hero (as in fiction or motion pictures)
Synonyms
Examples of baddie in a Sentence
the actor has never been cast as a hero, but he's played every kind of baddie imaginable
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Malware is the big baddie of the internet, but phishing sites that trick people into surrendering their personal information by impersonating other websites are just as dangerous.
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PCMAG, 27 Mar. 2024
What ensues is part wannabe Western, part cartoonish punch-fest, as Dalton hits, kicks, and pummels any sleazy baddies who are unlucky enough to cross his path.
—Devan Coggan, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2024
But Washington’s cover is blown, and he’s captured by the baddies.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
After assembling the best of reality TV's baddies for a hilarious and meta first season, E!'s reality competition series is back with an all new roster once again featuring some of the most iconic villains to have ever graced (or cursed) the small screen.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2024
In this baddie blowout, the BPMs are giddily fluid, sliding between neoperreo, tribal house, and even ambient dub.
—Isabelia Herrera, Pitchfork, 22 Mar. 2024
Clive Barker's adaptation of his own novella, The Hellbound Heart, introduced us to one of the scariest cinematic baddies, Pinhead, leader of a group of sadomasochistic demonic beings who are summoned by humans either accidentally or in pursuit of pleasures of their own.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2023
Paul dispatches the bald baddie in a climactic battle and Princess Irulan agrees to marry him to spare her father.
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2024
Traveling backward through the battle, inverted Pattinson sees the baddies setting up a trip wire at the entrance to the tunnel leading to the Algorithm.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
PCMAG, 27 Mar. 2024
What ensues is part wannabe Western, part cartoonish punch-fest, as Dalton hits, kicks, and pummels any sleazy baddies who are unlucky enough to cross his path.
—Devan Coggan, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2024
But Washington’s cover is blown, and he’s captured by the baddies.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
After assembling the best of reality TV's baddies for a hilarious and meta first season, E!'s reality competition series is back with an all new roster once again featuring some of the most iconic villains to have ever graced (or cursed) the small screen.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2024
In this baddie blowout, the BPMs are giddily fluid, sliding between neoperreo, tribal house, and even ambient dub.
—Isabelia Herrera, Pitchfork, 22 Mar. 2024
Clive Barker's adaptation of his own novella, The Hellbound Heart, introduced us to one of the scariest cinematic baddies, Pinhead, leader of a group of sadomasochistic demonic beings who are summoned by humans either accidentally or in pursuit of pleasures of their own.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2023
Paul dispatches the bald baddie in a climactic battle and Princess Irulan agrees to marry him to spare her father.
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2024
Traveling backward through the battle, inverted Pattinson sees the baddies setting up a trip wire at the entrance to the tunnel leading to the Algorithm.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
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“Baddie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baddie. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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