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bad guy

noun as in villainous or criminal person

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You had my character in “To Live and Die in L.A.” — he just wanted to jump off bridges, drive opposite ways on the freeway and shoot bad guys.

Playing a bad guy fulfills one of his key ambitions.

Some have gone so far to compare him to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whom Kirk called a “bad guy.”

“We don’t want the bad guys to know what we’re sending.”

“I had to overcome a lot. I had to fight for my place. ... I’m not some bad guy.”

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