Meaning of bad actor | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An individual or entity with a prior criminal conviction, or who has been sanctioned by the court or regulator.
   idiomatic
2. A person with malicious intent.
   idiomatic
3. An ill-intentioned, mean, badly behaved or ill-tempered person.
   idiomatic
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bad, actor.

Examples

“More needs to be done to combat financial crime, a senior lawyer at HSBC has said as he called for global collaboration over the rules imposed on banks to keep “bad actors” out of the financial system.”

“The top-ranking Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee has warned that YouTube’s powerful recommendation algorithm may be “optimising for outrageous, salacious and often fraudulent content” or susceptible to “manipulation by bad actors, including foreign intelligence entities”.”

“At this stage of the game excitement ran high; all were on their feet and crowding close upon the Chair – all were talking at once. One Democratic brother loudly called another a G-d d--d fool and then apologised. The Convention was a Pandemonium of bad actors.”

“But the soldiers continue to suffer and die by the thousands, and the country to bleed at every pore. How long shall these things be and the bold, bad actors who have arranged the drama dare to show their faces among an outraged constituency?”

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