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or baddy
as in villain
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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While the first chapter in Tarantino’s bloody revenge saga kicked off the Bride’s quest to avenge her dead child, plucking off one cartoonish baddie after another, the second one continued that journey from a new perspective.
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 19 Nov. 2024
Still, there’s great friction in this story line, because Bridger and Young’s dialogue is simultaneously so florid and pointed, and because the actors playing the Mormon baddies really gnaw on their villainy.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2025
The four main cast members — Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach — even appeared at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alab., to debut the trailer, so expect outer space (and a certain planet-munching baddie) to play a big part in the proceedings.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Therefore, the baddies will do various sneaky ploys of wording their requests to slip under the radar of the language-level circuit breakers.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 19 Nov. 2024
Still, there’s great friction in this story line, because Bridger and Young’s dialogue is simultaneously so florid and pointed, and because the actors playing the Mormon baddies really gnaw on their villainy.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2025
The four main cast members — Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach — even appeared at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alab., to debut the trailer, so expect outer space (and a certain planet-munching baddie) to play a big part in the proceedings.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Therefore, the baddies will do various sneaky ploys of wording their requests to slip under the radar of the language-level circuit breakers.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for baddie
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“Baddie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baddie. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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