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Discover LudwigThe word 'baddie' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a colloquial term used to refer to a villain or antagonist in a story or situation. Example: The baddie in the movie was a cunning and menacing character who constantly tried to outsmart the hero.
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baddie
noun
A person of bad character in a work of fiction; in a western he will typically wear a black hat.
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He is the baddies' baddie, and we spot images of his forerunners, from the previous three films, on a Moroccan wall.
In 2015 he's our big baddie; the steely puppetmaster with whom our next prime minister will inevitably go chest to chest.
To be quite frank with you, at this stage I'm starting to worry that the big baddie of the film will be a smoke monster of some description.
Not least because this is the big baddie of the film; a man who rides boats around on railway tracks.
In Disney's latest 3D animation, Wreck-It Ralph, the protagonist is the baddie in a retro-style arcade game.
First, though, we will see her in Maleficent, a film about Sleeping Beauty's baddie, starring Angelina Jolie.
It is based on a comic-book series that began in the 1960s and even features a Russian baddie.
Ruminating about his failed affairs, he lives alone in Marseilles, comforted by a few ill-sorted friends, who are nastily stalked by a mobster baddie eager to locate Babette (and surprisingly ignorant when it comes to disk-copying)."Solea" reads as if it yearns to be a film.
But is HAL really a "baddie"?
Chuck in a genuinely menacing baddie (Vincent D'Onofrio, showing what might have happened if Sergeant Pyle had half a brain and was still alive), a pair of sidekicks with chemistry and meaningful storylines (Elden Henson and Deborah Ann Woll as Foggy Nelson and Karen Page) and a witty, taut script, and you've got yourselves a winner.
He's never in good shape!" Does that mean that, like Tony, he might turn out to be a baddie?
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