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bad actor
noun
- a mean, ill-tempered, troublemaking, or evil person.
- a vicious animal.
- an inveterate criminal.
Word History and Origins
Origin of bad actor1
Example Sentences
But at least once upon a time he was a somewhat consistent bad actor.
“Aeromonas happens to be a bug that has a particular capacity here that makes it a bad actor,” said Schaffner.
People said openly he was a bad actor and that he was finished in Hollywood.
Every plaudit which a vitious play, or a bad actor receives is a blow to the public morals, and the public taste.
Is there not Mr. Claremont always at hand for this purpose, whom the late king pronounced three times to be 'a bad actor'?
The Wildcat snaked himself forward toward the fat bad actor.
On the echo of the shot from the fat bad actor's gun the Wildcat leaped automatically.
Lafarge, the bad actor from the Comédie Française was hanging about, and I was the more convinced he was bent on mischief.
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