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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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Recent Examples of baddie
To usher in spring, channel your inner nature girl while embracing your nail-baddie aesthetic with these cat-eye koi ponds.
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Christina Perrier, InStyle, 27 Feb. 2026
This brilliantly acerbic novel is set up as a millennial comedy of manners, but when Remy and Alicia head to the Hamptons for a surf weekend with Instagram-baddie Jen, a pair of glowing eyes in the bushes is just the first indication that things are very, very wrong.
—Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026
The concoction has been dubbed Chinese baddie tea, a nod to its ties to traditional Chinese medicine.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 18 Feb. 2026
Husband and wife duo Sheen and Lundberg, who have previously collaborated on series Staged and movie The Last Train To Christmas, will voice Ivy’s off-kilter parents, while Lucas will portray baddie Clawdelia Thorn.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2026
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Christina Perrier, InStyle, 27 Feb. 2026
This brilliantly acerbic novel is set up as a millennial comedy of manners, but when Remy and Alicia head to the Hamptons for a surf weekend with Instagram-baddie Jen, a pair of glowing eyes in the bushes is just the first indication that things are very, very wrong.
—Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026
The concoction has been dubbed Chinese baddie tea, a nod to its ties to traditional Chinese medicine.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 18 Feb. 2026
Husband and wife duo Sheen and Lundberg, who have previously collaborated on series Staged and movie The Last Train To Christmas, will voice Ivy’s off-kilter parents, while Lucas will portray baddie Clawdelia Thorn.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for baddie
Noun
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Then there’s Haim, so full of venom and vitriol, who depending on one’s perspective is low-key the hero or villain of the film.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2026
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Javier Bardem’s Oscar-winning performance as Anton Chigurh in the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men remains an iconic villain turn 20 years later.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The psychology that Bryk wrote for these young men is the key as to why these brutes are more lovable than unbearable.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
14 Mar. 2026
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Bay Hill was a brute before the round was halted for just over an hour because of heavy rain.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
7 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In Nuremberg,Göring is closer to a sad clown than to a monster.—
Alice Kaplan,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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For the non-Nintendo among us, Bowser is Mario’s enemy, a fire-breathing monster and leader of the Koops.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Baddie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baddie. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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