bad influence

Example Sentences

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Here Bown and Keynes deploy their most memorable analogy: managing a teenager’s relationship with the neighborhood’s bad influence, a character they call “Dangerous Doug.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026

"I'd probably say I was the one getting into the most trouble. I was the wee bad influence."

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025

The pop-infused corrido, about a bad influence in his love life, is the most streamed música Mexicana song globally, the fourth most popular Latin song and the song most added globally to user-created playlists.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024

My stepmother has called me a bad influence and my retort is I pay rent and buy my own clothes, she doesn’t get a say.

From Slate • Oct. 5, 2023

He could move her away from her mother and that bad influence.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman