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bad seed

noun

  1. informal.
    a person who is seen as being congenitally disposed to wrongdoing and likely to be a bad influence on others
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

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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.

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“She thinks I'm a bad seed is all.”

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Even his parents considered him a “bad seed” and said that executing him was the only way to ensure he never hurt anyone again.

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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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