bad influence
Example Sentences
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Here Bown and Keynes deploy their most memorable analogy: managing a teenager’s relationship with the neighborhood’s bad influence, a character they call “Dangerous Doug.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Collins added that she did not feel proms were a good thing and instead were a bad influence on children.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
The pop-infused corrido, about a bad influence in his love life, is the most streamed música Mexicana song globally, the fourth most popular Latin song and the song most added globally to user-created playlists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
My stepmother has called me a bad influence and my retort is I pay rent and buy my own clothes, she doesn’t get a say.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2023
There is no doubt that your grandfather’s reactionary class standing had a bad influence on your father’s thoughts, and he naturally passed them on to you.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
