bad seed

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

There’s a grand tradition of terrible little girls in horror, from “The Bad Seed” to “The Exorcist,” and we can easily add “Abigail” to that canon.

From Los Angeles Times

“She thinks I'm a bad seed is all.”

From Literature

In this sense, he argues, the witness of John of Patmos, the author of Revelation, is a bad seed yielding wicked fruit.

From Washington Post

“The Terminator” in an “Annabelle” wig, Chucky by way of “The Bad Seed” or the nasty little sister of “Ex Machina’s” Ava, M3GAN is equipped with a searing side-eye and snappy clapbacks.

From Los Angeles Times

The strength of "The Bad Seed Returns" is, frankly, in its seed: the shadow of its 2018 version and its star.

From Salon