bad person

/bæd ˌpʌrsn/

/bæd ˈpʌsən/

Other forms: bad persons

Definitions of bad person

1. noun

   a person who does harm to others
   synonyms: malefactor

   antonyms:

   good person

   a person who is good to other people

   types:

   offender, wrongdoer

   a person who transgresses moral or civil law

   bad egg

   (old-fashioned slang) a bad person

   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

   abuser, maltreater

   someone who abuses

   annihilator

   a total destroyer

   aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker

   someone who attacks

   barrater, barrator

   someone guilty of barratry

   convict

   a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense

   beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster

   someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

   delinquent, juvenile delinquent

   a young offender

   defector, deserter

   a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post)

   gigolo

   a man who has sex with and is supported by a woman

   ganef, ganof, gonif, goniff

   (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse)

   iconoclast, image breaker

   a destroyer of images used in religious worship

   transgressor

   someone who transgresses; someone who violates a law or command

   malfeasant

   one guilty of malfeasance

   molester

   someone who subjects others to unwanted or improper sexual activities

   no-show, nonattender, truant

   someone who shirks duty

   culprit, perpetrator

   someone who perpetrates wrongdoing

   principal

   (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement

   blood, profligate, rake, rakehell, rip, roue

   a dissolute man in fashionable society

   backslider, recidivist, reversionist

   someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior

   miscreant, reprobate

   a person without moral scruples

   diversionist, saboteur, wrecker

   someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks

   ladies' man, lady killer, seducer

   a man who takes advantage of women

   seductress

   a woman who seduces

   shark

   a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest

   pettifogger, shyster

   a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods

   evildoer, sinner

   a person who sins (without repenting)

   slave dealer, slave trader, slaver

   a person engaged in slave trade

   supplanter, usurper

   one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another

   vandal

   someone who willfully destroys or defaces property

   debaucher

   someone who assaults others sexually

   war criminal

   an offender who violates international law during times of war

   philanderer, womaniser, womanizer

   a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them

   type of:

   individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

   a human being