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bad man

noun

, Older Use.
  1. (sometimes initial capital letters) the devil.
  2. the bogeyman.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bad man1

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

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Example Sentences

“You are a prophet and you are the bad man,” he says of his skin color.

That was a very bad idea, executed by a very bad man named Mohammed Dahlan, and the two parties have been on the outs ever since.

It's about the emotional reality of a good man becoming a bad man, and the reality of how his descent affects everyone around him.

Adrian, as we all might have guessed, turns out to be a bad, bad man.

Soon they are visited by a dark presence carrying a mysterious box, who announces that he is “a bad man with a very black heart.”

The parson and the man in the street would say Bill Sikes was a bad man, and that he ought to be punished.

We naturally feel pity even for a bad man whose head is about to fall.

The Chair fished again, and once more the familiar words began to fall from its lips—“‘You are far from being a bad man—’”

Three types of the bad man, the weak man, and the strong man with a weakness, that are gone through and lived out.

The bad man who had so hideously misgoverned them, felt himself crushed by Cicero's opening speech, and went into voluntary exile.

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