How to Use bad guy in a Sentence

bad guy

noun

• For their part, the bad guys run a gamut from hapless to pure evil.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• There are heroes and bad guys, cool jerks and funny nerds.
  — Caroline Framke, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2019
• Plus, the bad guy got caught and was given a hefty sentence.
  — Rachel Monroe, The Atlantic, 16 July 2019
• The bad guys get their comeuppance and good guys get to be heroes.
  — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 26 June 2019
• Your co-worker, however, lied to the court at the time of the incident and now casts you as the bad guy.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 30 July 2019
• There are these complicated emotions around record labels right now -- we're often made out to be the bad guys.
  — Harley Brown, Billboard, 19 July 2019
• Cannabis has been split, in the public imagination and in many of our laws, into a good guy and a bad guy, a drug and a medicine.
  — Amber Senter, Marie Claire, 11 Apr. 2019
• Of course, Carol’s saviors turn out to be bad guys but in the most convoluted way possible.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
• For the second time since April, a seriously bad guy was released by accident.
  — cleveland.com, 23 June 2019
• But is there really a difference between a bad guy and a bad personality?
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 29 July 2019
• After years of catching bad guys and investing in his community, this is Rock’s chance to get into the mix and prove he’s still got it.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2024
• The show went to a virtual matrix universe where everyone was a bad guy, and the Big Bad was a magic robot lady.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 19 July 2019
• Essentially: The superheroes in The Boys are the bad guys, and only a rag-tag international task force called the Boys can take them down.
  — Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 25 July 2019
• And most of the time his sense of who the bad guy was proved spot on.
  — Paul Letersky, Time, 22 July 2021
• Dom's kind of set up as the bad guy in that first film.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 25 June 2021
• There are a lot of crazies in the city and a lot of bad guys.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 11 Jan. 2020
• If the bad guys are trying to sack you, just give ’em the ball.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 17 Aug. 2019
• The main thing is this: There doesn’t have to be a bad guy and a good guy here.
  — oregonlive, 30 Sep. 2021
• But the big one to think about is this: Who are the real bad guys here?
  — Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
• This is a story in which all the parts are played by bad guys.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2023
• Just have Tom Cruise as the bad guy in space that you guys have to go stop.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 7 May 2021
• It was paid for with a grant, and with bad guy's money.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2023
• The squire, the son of a land owner, turns out to be the bad guy in the book, taking more and more.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2019
• One thing that’s cool about it is there’s no bad guy in this one.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 25 Nov. 2022
• Mom picks off bad guys in the desert with her sniper rifle.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2024
• The bad guys will be the players who keep bringing it up.
  — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 18 Feb. 2020
• And that the bad guy had blue eyes, was blonde and spoke perfect English.
  — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 8 Dec. 2022
• And the story had a bad guy that the public was already primed to hate.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
• So maybe just remember who the bad guy is here (ie, the virus).
  — Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 22 May 2020
• The real question now is whether Eleanor is a bad guy, too.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024