Example Sentences

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But as McGoohan later explained, if audiences were expecting a James Bond-style baddy to appear, they would have been disappointed.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2016

If you stuck around for the post-credit scene in The Avengers, you would have been treated to a glimpse of Thanos, the purple-skinned alien baddy that was behind Loki’s mayhem in the movie.

From Time • Jul. 31, 2014

Paul knows from the outset that any man who gets three damning sentences of description is a baddy, but as a civil servant he has a duty.

From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2013

He too has read the three-sentence description of his new boss and can tell he is a baddy.

From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2013

Then you's a baddy woman to stay in here an' keep a-talkin' all the whole time," said Toddie, "when it makes poor old Uncle Harry supper so.

From Romance of California Life by Habberton, John