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
“He didn’t recognize them as a bad influence or something that’s holding him down,” she recalled wistfully.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2025
Then he told her he would no longer bring the kids to see her every weekend, claiming his mother called her a bad influence.
From BBC ● May 17, 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
