What's the difference between baddie and baldie?

Baddie


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So strong is this image of Peck that his few honourable attempts at comedy, and his less successful portrayals of the baddie, are often forgotten.
  • (2) Call centre workers aren't cartoon baddies – it's rare that they've chosen to do this job.
  • (3) It was probably the seminal boxing match of all time, the dramatic unities perfectly in place: perceived goodie v baddie, impossible odds, totally unforeseen outcome.
  • (4) 12.44am BST Shadow finance minister Andrew Robb claims both Barack Obama and David Cameron have also used the word "baddies".
  • (5) There was, though, some indignation when it emerged both records had links to Simon Cowell , the entertainment industry's favourite pantomime baddy.
  • (6) With our politics increasingly polarised , it saddens me to see my students being initiated – deliberately or not – into an essentially Manichaean view of politics, with a checklist of “goodies” (leftists, trade unions, Corbyn) and “baddies” (Tories, Brexiteers, anyone who uses the phrase British values without irony).
  • (7) All this and Celia Imrie still comes close to stealing the show as a brilliant, sharp baddie.
  • (8) Photograph: Alan Markfield If Bruce isn't really Looper's baddie, it's only because black-and-white morality doesn't have a place in Johnson's world.
  • (9) But cackling local baddie Lawrence Murphy (Jack Palance) turns up to ruin their fun.
  • (10) Nor is there much sign of Thanos, the studio's go-to background baddie, though his minion Nebula turns up in the form of Doctor Who's shaven-headed Karen Gillan.
  • (11) On the rare occasions when you are depicted, it’s frequently as a disability stereotype – in a medical setting (toy hospital set), as an evil baddie (Captain Hook) or associated with charity (BBC’s Children in Need).
  • (12) Finland approves wolf hunt in trial cull Read more Thanks to people finally shrugging off the fairytale baddies that teach us to fear this carnivore, and thanks to protection from an EU directive on habitats, wolf numbers – along with those of lynx and brown bears – have been slowly recovering in Europe .
  • (13) As the tagline – "May the best man live" – suggests, it's basically the same old flick with the same old schtick: the Stath tops baddies, boffs toffs (he's a one-man manifesto for geezer supremacy), and cops off with a blondie.
  • (14) Bit too much like what the baddies on the other side would do, don’t you think?
  • (15) Dermot O'Leary is standing inside an illuminated ring of X Factor contestants, like he's one of the baddies from Superman II and he's about to be fired into space for his crimes.
  • (16) Many people will miss being the baddies, suggests Broder.
  • (17) To use his own language, a more accurate description would be: "It's not goodies versus baddies, it's a mixture of goodies and baddies versus baddies."
  • (18) We see some Somali baddies at the beginning disrupting a delivery of aid to Mogadishu - we are told they are doing it on General Aidid's orders and therefore the goodies (America) plan to kill General Aidid.
  • (19) Just because they're not the most imaginative of Whovian baddies.
  • (20) "Tinker Tailor rubbish, all moody non-dialogue and twisty plot that you desperately follow and then the denouement is cos the baddies are idiots and say something stupid - what's the point of the clever twisty plot when the goodies don't have to unravel it?"

Baldie


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The bi-annual Leonard Cohen Event was initially hosted during Cohen’s silent period when the singer embraced Buddhism and entered the Mount Baldy Zen Centre to live in seclusion as a Rinzai monk.
  • (2) This breed was chosen because of previous studies on the baldy calf syndrome.
  • (3) Inherited epidermal dysplasia (IED), formerly called baldy calf syndrome, is a lethal disease of calves of Holstein-Friesian ancestry.
  • (4) In 82 patients, the more favourable vaginal approach was rendered complicated by additional findings (in 22, antefixating preliminary operations on the uterus after Doléris or Baldy; in 29, cystic adnexal tumours; in 31, adhesions or unclear conditions of pain following known or unknown previous surgery).
  • (5) Statham knows which side his bread is buttered, and he's sticking with being a baldie, even if it means a lot of shaving.
  • (6) "The fire's not that close to Baldy, but with the wind, you're worrying about things sparking," Sibbach said.
  • (7) The next year, Carolina stumbled baldy, starting the season with a 2-8 record.
  • (8) Though serious, Liu is not austere (one letter to a longstanding friend begins "Dear Baldy or Beardy").
  • (9) The gist of it is this: baldy video game killmaster Agent 47 murders a bunch of nuns dressed in fetish gear after they blow up his hotel with a rocket launcher.
  • (10) As Colin Baldy , an Englishman who regularly visits Umbria, puts it: He's definitely well-liked and well-supported.