English > bad person: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A person who does harm to others. |
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| Narrower | bad egg | (old-fashioned slang) a bad person |
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| decadent | A person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically) |
| destroyer, ruiner, undoer, waster, uprooter | A person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to |
| libertine, debauchee, rounder | A dissolute person |
| panderer | A person who serves or caters to the vulgar passions or plans of others (especially in order to make money) |
| polluter, defiler | A person or organization that causes pollution of the environment |
| scalawag, scallywag | A white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest) |
| seducer | A bad person who entices others into error or wrongdoing |
| sellout | Someone who has sold out |
| shocker | A shockingly bad person |
| snake, snake in the grass | A deceitful or treacherous person |
| trampler | someone who injures by trampling |
| vermin, varmint | An irritating or obnoxious person |
| victimizer, victimiser | A person who victimizes others |
| wrongdoer, offender | A person who transgresses moral or civil law |
| Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul | A human being |
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| Opposite | good person | A person who is good to other people |
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| Spanish | mala persona |
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| Catalan | mala persona |
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