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BAD PERSON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who does harm to others
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bad person" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bad person"):
offender; wrongdoer (a person who transgresses moral or civil law)
bad egg ((old-fashioned slang) a bad person)
sellout (someone who has sold out)
decadent (a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically))
destroyer; ruiner; undoer; uprooter; waster (a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to)
debauchee; libertine; rounder (a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained)
panderer (a person who serves or caters to the vulgar passions or plans of others (especially in order to make money))
defiler; polluter (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)
shocker (a shockingly bad person)
snake; snake in the grass (a deceitful or treacherous person)
trampler (someone who injures by trampling)
varmint; vermin (an irritating or obnoxious person)
victimiser; victimizer (a person who victimizes others)
Antonym:
good person (a person who is good to other people)
