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

Soon the two are involved in a tit-for-tat escalation that has dire consequences for everyone in their orbit and reveals Otto as Maggie’s formidable “Bad Seed” foe.

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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.

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“She thinks I'm a bad seed is all.”

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Even his parents considered him a “bad seed” and said that executing him was the only way to ensure he never hurt anyone again.

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

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