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bad seed
noun
informala person who is seen as being congenitally disposed to wrongdoing and likely to be a bad influence on others
Example Sentences
Soon the two are involved in a tit-for-tat escalation that has dire consequences for everyone in their orbit and reveals Otto as Maggie’s formidable “Bad Seed” foe.
There’s a grand tradition of terrible little girls in horror, from “The Bad Seed” to “The Exorcist,” and we can easily add “Abigail” to that canon.
“She thinks I'm a bad seed is all.”
Even his parents considered him a “bad seed” and said that executing him was the only way to ensure he never hurt anyone again.
In this sense, he argues, the witness of John of Patmos, the author of Revelation, is a bad seed yielding wicked fruit.
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