bad boy

noun

: a person who flouts convention

a literary bad boy

Examples of bad boy in a Sentence

He has become known as the bad boy of the American television industry.

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To get around this, a plan is hatched to set Kat up with bad boy Patrick Verona (played by the late Heath Ledger), who is paid to take her out, though things quickly get more complicated when real feelings develop. —

Jane Lacroix, People.com, 2 Nov. 2024 But with new admissible evidence emerging, another question lingers: have the country’s most notorious bad boys of Beverly Hills, Erik and Lyle Menendez, finally paid their debt to society? —

Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024 One of these price-on-request bad boys will set you back by at least US$30,000 – and that's not counting the top-of-the-line lenses. —

New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2024 The film came out in 1969 and set the tone for the 1970s bad boy—motorbike, Ray Ban sunglasses, leather jackets. —

Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bad boy