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

He had seemed to oppose the windmill, simply as a manoeuvre to get rid of Snowball, who was a dangerous character and a bad influence.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell