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# baddie

«baddie» in Mova's school dictionary: **a bad person or villain in a story, film or game** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a baddie, baddies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal) A baddie is a bad person or villain in a story, film or game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baddie/#m1)

2) (informal) A baddie can be any person or thing seen as the cause of trouble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baddie/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, films and play: goodies and baddies; in talk about books and plays, the baddie is the villain or antagonist; it tells you who the reader should be against.

### examples

- The baddie in the film had a secret lair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baddie/#x1)
- We played goodies and baddies in the playground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baddie/#x2)
- In fairy tales, the wolf is often the baddie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baddie/#x3)
- The baddies got caught at the end. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baddie/#x4)
- Sugar is sometimes made the baddie of healthy eating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baddie/#x5)

### note

Informal; in essays write «villain» or «antagonist». Also spelt «baddy». Plural: baddies. Opposite: goodie (goody).

### In the corpora

- [Chinese dragons, lóng, are lucky and wise and bring rain — not the fire-breathing baddies of English stories.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal/4/)
- [Mark in Bristol says, «Proper job, the writer made the baddie talk all posh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «baddie» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baddie/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.