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
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
And to cull your crew of those who would be a bad influence in this regard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
No matter how hot it got, Mami wouldn’t allow us to cool off in the hydrant with the neighborhood kids, whom she considered a bad influence.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
