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
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
You’re an adult and your desire to wear normal adult clothing and makeup is you being a normal 20-year-old, not you being a bad influence.
From Slate • Oct. 5, 2023
“Anyway. You can tell your dad he doesn’t have to worry about me and my bad influence much longer.”
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
