baddy two-shoes

BADDY TWO-SHOES. Woman Commits Murder and Suicide for a Trivial Cause. […] Nelson had bought his wife a pair of shoes and lost them on the way home while under the influence of liquor. His wife sent him back to hunt for them and upon his return unsuccessful she killed him in her rage.

1890 January 26, The Chattanooga Sunday Times, Chattanooga, Tenn., →OCLC, page 8, column 3

With Graham, whose presence offers the pressure of sex without any threat of follow-through, [Steven] Soderbergh may have concocted a new-style modern sex symbol. But [Laura] San Giacomo’s Miss Baddy Two-Shoes is triumphantly old style; she’s all follow-through, and the movie desperately needs her sass and her cynic’s sanity. She’s the “sex” in the movie that makes you forget the “lies” and the “videotape.” There’s a lesson in all this: if you’re going to create a morality play, be on guard—low-down beats highfalutin every time.

1989 September, Peter Rainer, “Sexually speaking: Glorifying abstinence over sex and talk over action, sex, lies, and videotape hits a contemporary nerve, […]”, in Anna Wintour, editor, Vogue, volume 179, number 9 (3290 overall), New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 455, column 2

So, basically, a passable show, with Lily [Walsh] doing the best work and everyone else trying to cope with how lame the current crop of super-villains really is. A Miss Annie Dutton Lewis, or even a Dinah Marler Thorpe, are not to be found among these fake baddy two-shoes.

1998 May 20, Shawn Hill, “ATWT [As the World Turns]: 3rd Mon. Update, 5/18/98, pt. 2”, in rec.arts.tv.soaps.cbs (Usenet), archived from the original on 17 Jan 2026

hmmmmm, I'm lookin' at that last statement: "I can do whatever I want to".... the rebel yell. You _can_ do whatever you want to Barb, but I have a feeling you _do_not_want_ to smoke. "and if I want to smoke, then pffttt." Sure, but you _do_not_want_ to smoke. Staying smoke-free is great for the goody two-shoes, the baddy two-shoes, the saint, the sinner, the.... you get the idea.

2000 March 17, peaceofheart, “Defiance---helppppp”, in alt.support.stop-smoking (Usenet), archived from the original on 17 Jan 2026

‘Let’s get the boy out!’ cried a voice, the voice of Mr Punch, of all people. Surely his part was to play the ringleader, the anti-hero, not the have-a-go hero. It appeared the puppets were divided, half good half bad, like all children were, or for the most part. Well, all apart from Alfie Jolly; he was a goody two-shoes according to his twin brother, Buster, who was a baddy two-shoes, a buster gut anti-hero.

2020 October 28, Mark Roland Langdale, “A Night at the Old Toy Shop”, in The Toy Museum: The Boy Who Gave His Birthdays Back, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Matador, →ISBN