variants
or baddy
plural baddies
informal
: a bad person or thing
especially
: an opponent of the hero (as in fiction or motion pictures)
Synonyms
Examples of baddie in a Sentence
the actor has never been cast as a hero, but he's played every kind of baddie imaginable
Recent Examples on the Web
Disney’s classic baddies are getting their own theme park land at the Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida.
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Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2024
Downey will now star as the famed comic book baddie in Avengers: Doomsday (2026) and Avengers: Secret Wars (2027).
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 9 Aug. 2024
Respected character actors such as Paul Walter Hauser, Michael Stuhlbarg and Ving Rhames play varying shades of clichéd baddies, each of them seemingly happy to go with the flow.
—Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
Mickey Rourke plays a baddie with an incomprehensible accent, a thing for exotic birds, and—checks notes—plasma whips attached to his arms?
—Moises Mendez Ii, TIME, 23 July 2024
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Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2024
Downey will now star as the famed comic book baddie in Avengers: Doomsday (2026) and Avengers: Secret Wars (2027).
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 9 Aug. 2024
Respected character actors such as Paul Walter Hauser, Michael Stuhlbarg and Ving Rhames play varying shades of clichéd baddies, each of them seemingly happy to go with the flow.
—Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
Mickey Rourke plays a baddie with an incomprehensible accent, a thing for exotic birds, and—checks notes—plasma whips attached to his arms?
—Moises Mendez Ii, TIME, 23 July 2024
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“Baddie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baddie. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
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