BADDIES Synonyms: 79 Similar and Opposite Words

baddies

noun

plural of baddie

as in villains

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 baddies If her dream were to become a reality, the Irish actress would join a prestigious lineup of Bond baddies — a group that includes Rami Malek, Christoph Waltz, Javier Bardem and Mads Mikkelsen in the Daniel Craig era alone. — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 24 Aug. 2026 Those scares are best exemplified by the film’s most inventive setpiece, where Gemma gets lost in an endless pillow fort filled with baddies around every corner. — William Earl, Variety, 21 Aug. 2026 Annabelle Wallis plays Ellis, the ship’s unlikely and too-pretty third mate, who gives Statham an assist with the random international baddies who make up the crew. — Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2026 The Villains Land expansion will open as the first-ever Disney Parks land themed entirely to the studio’s villains, after fans have long lobbied for Disney to build a land — or even an entire theme park — dedicated to Disney’s iconic baddies. — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Aug. 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 Mando is still a New Republic contractor, and the Imperials are still a threat, though down a few baddies. — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 23 May 2026 My wife and son soon joined in, taking turns solving puzzles and beating up baddies in hilarious fashion. — Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 22 May 2026

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Noun

At the time of the arrest, many royal observers speculated about Harry and Meghan’s reaction, especially since they had often been portrayed as the family villains.

— Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 25 Aug. 2026
As baseball's new villains, the Dodgers' fate in October will be the most talked about storyline.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of villains

Noun

These brutes commonly exceed 50 pounds.

— Keith Sutton, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2026
In Raspail’s tale, hordes of impoverished and dark-skinned brutes from India descend onto French shores by way of rafts, the first wave of an invasion of the civilized West by the brown-skinned developing world.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026

Definition of brutes

Noun

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
The monsters of the original — the Cyclops and the sirens — are replaced by drones that buzz across the stage and models of robotic war machines.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026

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