variants
or baddy
plural baddies
informal
: a bad person or thing
especially
: an opponent of the hero (as in fiction or motion pictures)
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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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After busting up some live-streaming baddies, Parker takes their phone and turns the camera on them tied up in a web.
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Jack Dunn, Variety, 29 Dec. 2024
Unlike Squid Game’s other baddies, who wear masks and lie about their identities, the Recruiter is comparatively upfront.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
When the hero ducks so that one baddie punches the other one, then backflips over a banister to two-leg kick the guy coming up from beneath?
—Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2024
The real baddie, looming up behind the whole narrative, is King Herod.
—N.t. Wright, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
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Jack Dunn, Variety, 29 Dec. 2024
Unlike Squid Game’s other baddies, who wear masks and lie about their identities, the Recruiter is comparatively upfront.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
When the hero ducks so that one baddie punches the other one, then backflips over a banister to two-leg kick the guy coming up from beneath?
—Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2024
The real baddie, looming up behind the whole narrative, is King Herod.
—N.t. Wright, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Baddie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baddie. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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