bad guy
Example Sentences
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Burns wore his low, almost over his eyes, like the bad guys.
From Los Angeles Times
Pua has her hands folded and pressed against her chest, like she’s praying Leo isn’t the bad guy in the story.
From Literature
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"I know these people in the neighborhood, they're not bad people, so why would they be afraid? They're only coming after the bad guys."
From BBC
"It essentially meant that we didn't have to be the bad guys," Sam says.
From BBC
It was like one of those movies where the bad guy is done monologuing, and the trap that he’s set hasn’t gone off yet, so everyone’s sitting around waiting for the BOOM.
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.