BAD PERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bad person mean? 

• BAD PERSON (noun)
  The noun BAD PERSON has 1 sense:

1. a person who does harm to others

  Familiarity information: BAD PERSON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAD PERSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who does harm to others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)

 Context examples 

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient say that he/she is a bad person or deserves to be punished?

(NPI - Say That He/She is a Bad Person, NCI Thesaurus)

But I bethought myself that I was in a boat, after all; and that a man like Mr. Peggotty was not a bad person to have on board if anything did happen.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)