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bad seed
noun
A genetic source of bad behavior or other results.
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She is the bad seed.
"The Bad Seed" followed "Picnic".
Is Michael a very bad seed?
He's the bad seed on the block.
The Bad Seed certainly came up with an inventive solution.
Is Danny a bad seed, or is he just troubled?
"It's from 'The Bad Seed,' by William March, and he's talking about psychopaths.
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Now, less than two weeks later, those bad-seed children had managed to command the full attention of her husband.
The black teenagers are two brothers, Raymond and James Monroe, and Charles Baker, a bad-seed thug easily drawn into violence.
The series continues on Thursday with Richard Gere in the Bronx street drama "Bloodbrothers" (1978) and the bad-seed thriller "The Other" (1972).
All it takes is for one bad-seed pug to wreak havoc on someone's shoe, and the mob mentality goes after every pug on the block.
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