How to Use bad guy in a Sentence

bad guy

noun
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  • So maybe just remember who the bad guy is here (ie, the virus).
    — Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 22 May 2020
  • His son looked over the shoulder and asked Powell if Floyd was a bad guy.
    — Jack Shuler, The New Republic, 2 July 2020
  • The bottom line is that no one—including bad guys—wants to get shot with anything.
    — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Travis Fimmel plays Marcus, who seems to be the bad guy in the series.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2020
  • That’s why players play this brutal sport, and anyone who stands in their way is the enemy, or bad guy.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 25 July 2024
  • Everyone should be able to defeat the bad guy, save the world, and live happily ever after.
    — Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Jacinto isn't the only bad guy in genre TV who has audiences hot and bothered.
    — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 3 July 2024
  • The Big Ten is just a pompous fraud, and the league somehow managed to get hustled by a gangster while still looking like the bad guy.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The trailer shows the protagonist digging what appears to be a grave, knifing a bad guy and conducting an interrogation with a hatchet.
    — Andrew Ford, ProPublica, 23 Sep. 2020
  • And while some readers may correctly suspect who the true bad guy is long before the reveal, there is plenty to enjoy in the journey to the novel’s satisfying conclusion.
    — Emily Gray Tedrowe, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Meanwhile there’s a new bad guy to reckon with: Merrick (Harry Melling), a bratty brainiac who likes to refer to himself as the youngest billionaire in pharma.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 July 2020
  • And most of the time his sense of who the bad guy was proved spot on.
    — Paul Letersky, Time, 22 July 2021
  • Dom's kind of set up as the bad guy in that first film.
    — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 25 June 2021
  • The main thing is this: There doesn’t have to be a bad guy and a good guy here.
    — oregonlive, 30 Sep. 2021
  • But the big one to think about is this: Who are the real bad guys here?
    — Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • This is a story in which all the parts are played by bad guys.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Just have Tom Cruise as the bad guy in space that you guys have to go stop.
    — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 7 May 2021
  • It was paid for with a grant, and with bad guy's money.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2023
  • One thing that’s cool about it is there’s no bad guy in this one.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Mom picks off bad guys in the desert with her sniper rifle.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2024
  • And that the bad guy had blue eyes, was blonde and spoke perfect English.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The real question now is whether Eleanor is a bad guy, too.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Yet, too often, the story still smears a broad brush on the same bad guy, the rancher.
    — Ben Long, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2024
  • That seems like the climax — the bad guy has been defeated.
    — Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 14 May 2021
  • Because of that, bad guys like Clement always seem to find a way to walk free.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2023
  • That's Beverley, the one who revels in being the bad guy, feeds off boos on the road and the cheers at home.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2021
  • Wayne always said that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun was a good guy with a gun.
    — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2024
  • And sometimes in democracies, bad guys lose at the polls.
    — Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
  • Well Hamas fired rockets at Israel,’ then Hamas is the bad guy.
    — Gabe Friedman, sun-sentinel.com, 12 May 2021
  • For one thing, how does any of this really make Strand a bad guy?
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021

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