baddie
Americannoun
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baddies
plural
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a villainous or criminal person.
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Slang. a person who is perceived as attractive and self-assured, especially a woman.
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But even the baddie gets a fully fleshed-out tale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
But the movie needs him to be the baddie, so he reverts to evildoing for no apparent reason.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
The sleepy town of Hawkins is under quarantine as the show’s heroes search for a way to find and vanquish the baddie Vecna.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
"We have all the brilliant classic pantomime elements: a beastly baddie, a heroic heroine, amazing dance routines and side-splitting comedy," said Ms Wood.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025
Near the start there’s a scene where Clint Eastwood doesn't know if he has a bullet left in his gun to shoot the baddie.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Blundering onto early Los Angeles film sets, they can’t tell which baddies are real or fiction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
In the minds of some retrograde dweebs, representing these baddies with a woman who could play Barbie was sacrilege.
From Salon ● May 5, 2026
"The baddies that you want to look out for… is your mineral oil, your sodium lauryl sulfate, parfum, benzel peroxide" being high up on the ingredients list, Miss Truman says.
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2025
Classic baddies from Cruella de Vil to the Joker have gotten movies that explore their origin stories and explain their damaged psyches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
And now we stood here, fake-smoking like the baddest of the baddies.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
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