How to Use bad guy in a Sentence

bad guy

noun

• Who's the bad guy in all this? Depends on your point of view.
  — CBS News, 20 Mar. 2018
• Maybe Russia was involved, but that doesn’t mean Putin is a bad guy.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Apr. 2018
• Someone who doesn't back down, plays with an edge, picks up some technical fouls every now and then and doesn’t mind being the bad guy.
  — Jason Jones, sacbee, 31 Mar. 2018
• Bruce Willis plays a disillusioned cop willing to look the other way when bad guys get what's coming to them.
  — Chris Ball, cleveland.com, 1 Apr. 2018
• Ogg’s on-screen presence was a bright spot in what was often an otherwise dull cast of anonymous and thinly written bad guys.
  — Nick Statt, The Verge, 9 Apr. 2018
• But the removal of the bad guy creates a power vacuum, and that power vacuum is filled by somebody else.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 9 Apr. 2018
• Yeah, people would get bored if 30 minutes in you realize that the bad guys are just cartoon characters.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 21 Mar. 2018
• Sideline stories unwind back in Tokyo, where the bad guys are fur-stroking cat lovers inspired by James Bond villains.
  — Colin Covert, idahostatesman, 12 Apr. 2018
• How come some inexplicable logic drives the good guys or bad guys into the lead position in this final battle every few minutes?
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2018
• In their eyes, letting the thief get away with it is better than risking the reputation of the global financial system by letting everyone know there’s a bad guy to look for.
  — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 9 Jan. 2025
• Personal details, while seemingly innocuous, can provide said bad guys with plenty of clues to begin hacking into your private life online.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 26 Mar. 2018
• Idiotic bad guys, a dull plot, and Reacher playing second fiddle to his own team all conspired to make this one of the worst seasons of action TV out there.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
• The good guys were always good, the bad guys wound up in prison and both good and bad characters seemed totally divorced from the turmoil over law and order and race that played out in real life from the '60s onward.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• Tom Holland's Peter has a favorite bodega, chases bad guys through backyards, and struggles to mix superhero-ing with the academic decathlon.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 7 Jan. 2025
• The bad guy becomes the good guy and gets the girl in the end.
  — Robert Philpot, star-telegram, 17 May 2018
• 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
• There are a lot of crazies in the city and a lot of bad guys.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 11 Jan. 2020
• If the bad guys are trying to sack you, just give ’em the ball.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 17 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Just have Tom Cruise as the bad guy in space that you guys have to go stop.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 7 May 2021
• It was paid for with a grant, and with bad guy's money.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2023
• The squire, the son of a land owner, turns out to be the bad guy in the book, taking more and more.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2019
• For their part, the bad guys run a gamut from hapless to pure evil.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
  — Lukas Mikelionis, Fox News, 4 June 2018
• One thing that’s cool about it is there’s no bad guy in this one.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 25 Nov. 2022
• Mom picks off bad guys in the desert with her sniper rifle.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2024
• Because McCain is the bad guy in this play -- and Trump is the good guy.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 14 May 2018

Last Updated: 2 Feb 2025