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Meaning of baddy-two-shoes | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Examples

“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.”
“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?”
“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).”
“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?”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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