bad actor
Example Sentences
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Let’s assume, for the sake of this column, that your friend’s sister is indeed a bad actor.
From MarketWatch • May 25, 2026
No one is a bad actor here—these are great athletes wanting to compete, and coaches are rewarded to win.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
If a bad actor -- or even an electromagnetic storm -- disrupted enough satellites, GPS-based navigation would fail.
From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2026
In fact, it’s not any one particular bad actor or corporate attack which fuels my spite, but the affront which underlies the whole: It’s the humiliation of it all.
From Salon • Feb. 20, 2024
He had looked strangely comical, like a bad actor auditioning for a solemn part in a play.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
