baddy-two-shoes

A form of baddy two shoes — A person who is ill-behaved.

Meanings

nounbaddy-two-shoes (plural baddy-two-shoes)
  1. alternativeAlternative form of baddy two shoes.

    Well, I heard that Sara was going to get a new image. She was going to turn baddy-two-shoes. And was going to end up pregnant by summer. Are they just changing actresses?

    1998 May 6, Uviedo, “Re; GH [General Hospital] Keesha [Ward] and Sara^([sic – meaning Sarah [Webber]]) fired!!”, in rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc (Usenet), archived from the original on 17 Jan 2026
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    With this god-like power now potentially at their fingertips, scientists could conceivably do much harm to society. They could create a race of goody-two-shoes who make the rest of us look like baddy-two-shoes by eating all their vegetables and doing all their homework and cleaning up their rooms.

    1993 October 29, Peter Shauger, “Commentary: Student says, ‘You’ve seen one clone, you’ve seen ’em all.’”, in The Villanovan, volume 69, number 6, Villanova, Pa.: Villanova University, →OCLC, page 10, column 1

    Samar Pratap Singh (Manoj Bajpai), is posted to a Bihar township, instantly whooshing into a cataclysmic conflict with the baddy-two-shoes Hitler called Bachu Yadav (Sayaji Shinde).

    1999, “Shool (1999)”, in Angelfire, archived from the original on 17 Sep 2002

    But we still do our class work and we hand in our homework. I mean, I’m not saying I’m a goody-two-shoes. But I’m not a baddy-two-shoes either. I’m just a medium kind of two-shoes, I reckon. We’re just willing to take a risk, as long as we’ve a good chance of getting away with it. Right?

    2003, Alex Shearer, “Black Market”, in Bootleg, London: Macmillan Children’s Books, →ISBN, pages 51–52
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