baddie

noun

ˈba-dē How to pronounce baddie (audio)
variants or baddy
Definition of baddienext
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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Recent Examples of baddie The clip released last night shows this is a more complex, sinister strategist than Josh Brolin’s crash-bang-boom baddie Thanos from the previous Avengers pics. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2026 Not only has Rey just lost her Jedi master, Luke Skywalker, but Luke’s lightsaber was damaged in a battle with First Order baddie Kylo Ren (aka Leia's son). — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 27 July 2026 Often in these cases the focus is on the opposition’s best player, but aliens cannot be cartoon baddies, so that rules out Lionel Messi. — Nick Miller, New York Times, 14 July 2026 ResMed started its baddies page this spring and began creating social media content with CPAP users. — Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 11 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for baddie
Recent Examples of Synonyms for baddie
  1. villain
  2. brute
  3. monster
Noun
  • Hailing from London as the son of hardscrabble fruit sellers, Winstone was often asked to channel his rough-and-tumble upbringing and pre-acting career as a boxer into mobster and villain roles.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Standing in his way is a mysterious villain intent on his destruction.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of villain
Noun
  • Most sportsmen wonder how any whitetail bucks, let alone a brute such as Kontras’, could have been so easily patterned.
    — Jeff Murray, Outdoor Life, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The show’s depiction of Hugh as a family man has been much more sympathetic than the book’s description of him as a power-hungry brute.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of brute
Noun
  • Hugh Jackman plays the titular monster hunter, who is sent to destroy Dracula.
    — Kara Nesvig, Parents, 29 Aug. 2026
  • There will be no B-movie monsters wearing terrible prosthetics, no scripts full of non sequiturs, no glitchy graphics.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of monster

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“Baddie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baddie. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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