How to Use bad guy in a Sentence
bad guy
noun
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The bad guy becomes the good guy and gets the girl in the end.
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Robert Philpot,
star-telegram,
17 May 2018
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And most of the time his sense of who the bad guy was proved spot on.
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Paul Letersky,
Time,
22 July 2021
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Dom's kind of set up as the bad guy in that first film.
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Derek Lawrence,
EW.com,
25 June 2021
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There are a lot of crazies in the city and a lot of bad guys.
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Carl Nolte,
SFChronicle.com,
11 Jan. 2020
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If the bad guys are trying to sack you, just give ’em the ball.
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Scott Ostler,
SFChronicle.com,
17 Aug. 2019
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The main thing is this: There doesn’t have to be a bad guy and a good guy here.
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oregonlive,
30 Sep. 2021
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But the big one to think about is this: Who are the real bad guys here?
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Alex Zaragoza,
Los Angeles Times,
10 July 2023
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This is a story in which all the parts are played by bad guys.
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Joshua Yaffa,
The New Yorker,
24 Aug. 2023
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Just have Tom Cruise as the bad guy in space that you guys have to go stop.
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Derek Lawrence,
EW.com,
7 May 2021
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It was paid for with a grant, and with bad guy's money.
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John Tufts,
The Indianapolis Star,
1 Sep. 2023
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The squire, the son of a land owner, turns out to be the bad guy in the book, taking more and more.
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Joe Soucheray,
Twin Cities,
17 Aug. 2019
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For their part, the bad guys run a gamut from hapless to pure evil.
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The Economist,
4 July 2019
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The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
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Lukas Mikelionis,
Fox News,
4 June 2018
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One thing that’s cool about it is there’s no bad guy in this one.
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Chris Smith,
BGR,
25 Nov. 2022
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Mom picks off bad guys in the desert with her sniper rifle.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
15 May 2024
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Because McCain is the bad guy in this play -- and Trump is the good guy.
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Chris Cillizza,
CNN,
14 May 2018
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The bad guys will be the players who keep bringing it up.
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Mike Finger,
ExpressNews.com,
18 Feb. 2020
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There’d be music and some acting and a bad guy, and a dance.
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Allison Stewart,
chicagotribune.com,
7 June 2018
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And that the bad guy had blue eyes, was blonde and spoke perfect English.
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Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
8 Dec. 2022
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And the story had a bad guy that the public was already primed to hate.
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Gabriel Popkin,
Scientific American,
1 Mar. 2020
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So maybe just remember who the bad guy is here (ie, the virus).
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Courtney Shea,
refinery29.com,
22 May 2020
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Plus, the bad guy got caught and was given a hefty sentence.
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Rachel Monroe,
The Atlantic,
16 July 2019
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The real question now is whether Eleanor is a bad guy, too.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes,
9 Dec. 2021
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Yet, too often, the story still smears a broad brush on the same bad guy, the rancher.
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Ben Long,
The Denver Post,
13 Feb. 2024
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That seems like the climax — the bad guy has been defeated.
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Emily Palmer Heller,
Vulture,
14 May 2021
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The purpose of this law is to protect the campus if a bad guy comes with a gun.
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Scott Travis,
Sun-Sentinel.com,
13 July 2018
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This is the good guy with a gun who stopped a bad guy with a gun at the church in White Settlement.
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Madison Dibble,
Washington Examiner,
10 Jan. 2020
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Because of that, bad guys like Clement always seem to find a way to walk free.
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Evan Romano,
Men's Health,
29 Aug. 2023
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So does Preston ever get unnerved by how good her real-life husband is at playing bad guys?
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Vlada Gelman,
TVLine,
12 Dec. 2024
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Over the years, the accessory has been embraced by heartthrobs (George Michael’s famous cross earring, anyone?), but has also simultaneously gotten a bad rap for being a piece mostly worn by sleazy players or bad guys.
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Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
25 Nov. 2024
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