bad influence

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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

"I'd probably say I was the one getting into the most trouble. I was the wee bad influence."

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025

Describing a bad influence in his love life through a pop-infused corrido, “La Diabla” is ultimately what cemented him as a rising música Mexicana star.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2025

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 doesn’t want to go there. That’s why I requested you come today, to help me take him there. Those boys in the streets have been a bad influence on him.”

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane