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or baddy
as in villain
a mean, evil, or unprincipled person
the actor has never been cast as a hero, but he's played every kind of baddie imaginable
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To fight back, Toons work together to complete tasks and use silly gags like cream pies and seltzer bottles to defeat the baddies and reclaim their town.
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J. Clara Chan, WIRED, 24 Dec. 2024
For the decolonial baddies Beaded Carabiner $35 Lenape Reserve
These gorgeous beaded carabiners are available in a number of colorways.
—James Factora, Them, 5 Dec. 2024
Morbius, meanwhile, sold itself with trailers featuring Spider-Man graffiti that doesn’t appear in the actual movie and made a bunch of fuss about a post-credits scene involving Michael Keaton’s MCU baddie the Vulture that ultimately didn’t make any sense nor amount to anything.
—James Grebey, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
The big plot element here is that the planet-size baddie Unicron (voiced by Orson Welles) wants to swallow up Cybertron, leading Optimus Prime and Megatron to forge a shaky alliance to protect their world.
—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024
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J. Clara Chan, WIRED, 24 Dec. 2024
For the decolonial baddies Beaded Carabiner $35 Lenape Reserve
These gorgeous beaded carabiners are available in a number of colorways.
—James Factora, Them, 5 Dec. 2024
Morbius, meanwhile, sold itself with trailers featuring Spider-Man graffiti that doesn’t appear in the actual movie and made a bunch of fuss about a post-credits scene involving Michael Keaton’s MCU baddie the Vulture that ultimately didn’t make any sense nor amount to anything.
—James Grebey, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
The big plot element here is that the planet-size baddie Unicron (voiced by Orson Welles) wants to swallow up Cybertron, leading Optimus Prime and Megatron to forge a shaky alliance to protect their world.
—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024
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“Baddie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baddie. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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