How to Use bad guy in a Sentence

bad guy

noun

• And most of the time his sense of who the bad guy was proved spot on.
  — Paul Letersky, Time, 22 July 2021
• Dom's kind of set up as the bad guy in that first film.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 25 June 2021
• The main thing is this: There doesn’t have to be a bad guy and a good guy here.
  — oregonlive, 30 Sep. 2021
• But the big one to think about is this: Who are the real bad guys here?
  — Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
• This is a story in which all the parts are played by bad guys.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2023
• It was paid for with a grant, and with bad guy's money.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2023
• One thing that’s cool about it is there’s no bad guy in this one.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 25 Nov. 2022
• And that the bad guy had blue eyes, was blonde and spoke perfect English.
  — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 8 Dec. 2022
• The real question now is whether Eleanor is a bad guy, too.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
• Yet, too often, the story still smears a broad brush on the same bad guy, the rancher.
  — Ben Long, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2024
• That seems like the climax — the bad guy has been defeated.
  — Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 14 May 2021
• Because of that, bad guys like Clement always seem to find a way to walk free.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2023
• That's Beverley, the one who revels in being the bad guy, feeds off boos on the road and the cheers at home.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2021
• And sometimes in democracies, bad guys lose at the polls.
  — Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
• Well Hamas fired rockets at Israel,’ then Hamas is the bad guy.
  — Gabe Friedman, sun-sentinel.com, 12 May 2021
• For one thing, how does any of this really make Strand a bad guy?
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
• In that movie, the old woman in the apartment building is convinced that the bad guy is her son.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• Perhaps the best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a tight-fisted Congress.
  — Asha Rangappa, CNN, 2 June 2022
• Road to Perdition got a lot of press at the time for the fact that, hey, look, Hanks is playing a bad guy.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2021
• But as Musk sees it, those pointing out the hatred are the real bad guys here.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2023
• And my bad guy was a coal baron, who was also the father of Kimble’s dead wife.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2023
• Now, the sense of menace the show’s bad guy projected hit a little too close to home.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2023
• Lewis once led a crew dubbed the Ghost Killers that robbed bad guys and dispensed lethal justice.
  — Journal Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2024
• Moisture is the bad guy here, so the key is to keep them dry and well-ventilated.
  — Beth Branch, Country Living, 24 May 2022
• Anyone with a conscience knows who the enemy or the bad guy is.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Sep. 2022
• After playing the hero for so long, Jason Momoa is ready to be the bad guy.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 23 Aug. 2022
• The fact is, some business leaders need someone who is OK with being the bad guy.
  — Yec, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2022
• And in that hive mind, fashion is still apparently the bad guy.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2021
• In the big climactic battle of this big-budget movie, Neytiri saves the hero’s life a second time and kills the bad guy.
  — Vulture, 13 Sep. 2022
• Now all of a sudden Loki is the one joining a superteam to fight a bigger bad guy.
  — Washington Post, 8 June 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024