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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a very bad boy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone, typically a child or a pet, who is behaving poorly or mischievously.
Example: "After breaking the vase, Timmy was definitely a very bad boy and knew he was in trouble."
Alternatives: "a naughty boy" or "a mischievous boy".
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A very bad boy.
When Orson met Larry: 'Welles was a very bad boy.
He's going to have to be… a very bad boy," writes Time Out's Trevor Johnston.
"Originally I wasn't going to date him, because he was supposedly a very bad boy," Ms. Hurt says.
"He was both a very big man and a very bad boy, a natural leader and an incurable screw-up.
Accepted into the Kirov Ballet in 1958, he immediately began to make a mark, as both a dancer and a very bad boy.
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However, Los Angeles criminal defence attorney Darren Kavinoky has a rather different view on the matter and recently indicated that, if the allegations against Meeks are true, he is a "very, very bad boy" and won't be swapping prison for fashion week.
But sometimes candor trumped comfort: one Georgia soldier worried in a letter home that while his dying brother had "said that he hoped he was prepared to meet his God in a better world than this," he was also aware "he had been a bad, bad, very bad boy".
Skating rinks aren't very bad boy anyway.
That would describe Judy Garland and "Get Happy!"; Ethel Waters and "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe"; Astrud Gilberto and any song composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim Richard Harriss and the songs of Jimmy Webb; and "those very bad boys" Frank Sinatra (with, in her words, his "Jack Daniel's-soaked heart") and Jimmy Van Heusen.
She is a very bad character, and if any boy does anything to her, she totally deserves it".
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