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  • noun Attributive form of bad boy

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Examples

  • Schweitzer stands to focus more attention on so-called bad-boy clauses in real-estate loans.

    Judge Rules Against Lightstone Kris Hudson 2011

  • The court case has become a major test of the so-called bad-boy clause, more formally known as the personal guarantee provision, under which borrowers can be held liable for a voluntary bankruptcy filing.

    Lightstone Chief Defends a Bankruptcy Kris Hudson 2011

  • The jury, which also included actors Uma Thurman and Jude Law, awarded the U.S' Kirsten Dunst the best actress award for her role as a depressive bride in Danish bad-boy Lars von Trier's end-of-the-world drama "Melancholia."

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • The commercial real estate market is being hobbled by billions of dollars in distressed debt, and some experts are pointing to a provision in many loans - a so-called bad-boy guarantee - that they say is to blame for a large part of the backlog.

    NYT > Home Page By JULIE SATOW 2011

  • After glam-rock was edged out in the 1990s, the Every Rose Has Its Thorn singer found fame again on reality TV, starring as a judge on USA's singing contest Nashville Star in 2005, then as the bad-boy bachelor looking for lust on VH1's tawdry dating show Rock of Love from 2007 to 2009.

    Doctor: Bret Michaels released from hospital 2010

  • Former Army prosecutor Christopher Graveline portrayed Graner in his 2010 book, "The Secrets of Abu Ghraib Revealed," as a manipulative bully with the bad-boy charm to draw others into his sadistic games.

    Key figure in Abu Ghraib abuse freed from prison 2011

  • But after alienating fans, the press and a string of coaches back home in America, NBA bad-boy Stephon Marbury is happy to be in a country where people clamor for his autograph.

    In China, NBA's Stephon Marbury is a hit 2011

  • Maverick Sabre's Let Me Go uses the same Isaac Hayes sample that Portishead pinched for Glory Box, in a similarly spooky way too, and a bunch of slow gloomy stylings help put Sabre's soulful bad-boy Plan B shtick on a slightly darker path.

    Yasmin, Emeli Sandé and Maverick Sabre are taking a trip back into trip-hop 2011

  • This was by no means the most star-studded affair of the night—Vanessa Hudgens was at Myhabit; Hollywood's bad-boy Alex Pettyfer made it to the Hugo store to honor the Young Collectors Council at the Guggenheim and Chloe Sevigny showed up at the madhouse that was the opening of Co-op in the Hotel on Rivington—but it certainly was the most random.

    If You Need a Reason to Party Marshall Heyman 2011

  • Previous Post Alex Meraz of 'New Moon' talks playing 'bad-boy' Paul, bulking up, and 'Twilight' fandom

    New 'Glee' preview: The competition gets 'Bootylicious!' | EW.com 2009

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