| 单词 | bad seed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbad seed bad seed n. colloquial (originally U.S.) a person who is innately and unalterably evil or corrupt; a person who exerts a malign influence.Popularized by the title of the 1954 novel The Bad Seed by William March which, however, used the term to refer to a hereditary trait or human characteristic, rather than a person (see quot. 19541). Quot. 19542 is from a review of Maxwell Anderson's play of the same name, based on the novel, which used the term in the defined sense but was not published until 1955. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil person > [noun] fiendc1220 shrewc1250 quedea1275 felon1340 malfeasorc1380 evil-doer1398 forfeiter1413 pucka1450 malefactor?c1450 wicked-doerc1450 improbe1484 wicked1484 Gomorrheana1529 dunghill1542 felonian1594 naughta1639 black sheep1640 pimp1649 hellicat1816 malfeasant1867 a bad sortc1869 bad seed1954 bloody1960 1954 ‘W. March’ Bad Seed x. 164 I alone am responsible. It was I who carried the bad seed that made her what she is.] 1954 Wall St. Jrnl. 10 Dec. 8/6 The late William March's novel, well transformed into stage idiom by Maxwell Anderson, deals with a little girl, just turning nine, who is a bad seed, a creature amoral and wicked. 2005 J. Canseco Juiced 142 My friends warned me about him, saying they'd heard stories about him and he was a bad seed, but I didn't care. < as lemmas |
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