bad seed

noun

1. informal.
   a person who is seen as being congenitally disposed to wrongdoing and likely to be a bad influence on others

Example Sentences

In 1954, no one had met anyone like her, or the novel that contained her: ‘The Bad Seed.’

From The Daily Beast

The Bad Seed is the story of how Christine becomes aware that her daughter is, in modern terminology, a psychopath.

From The Daily Beast

The Bad Seed would ultimately sell more than a million copies, leading to a hit stage adaptation and an Oscar-nominated film.

From The Daily Beast

We then spent a few minutes talking about wine categories that have been killed by one bad seed.

From The Daily Beast

Sin spreads misery around it only when there is ground ready for the bad seed.

From Project Gutenberg

Treachery breeds treachery, duplicity is a bad seed to sow for loyalty, and the Manx people were divided in their allegiance.

From Project Gutenberg

The first year of Mossgiel, from buying bad seed, the second from a late harvest, he lost half his crops.

From Project Gutenberg

Those who preach, or teach, sow good or bad seed, which takes root in the mind or heart.

From Project Gutenberg

The Enemy seizes the opportunity—the carelessness of Christs servants—and sows bad seed.

From Project Gutenberg