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
“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
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
She tells everybody how much she loves you, and she must have a bad influence on you too.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
