bad apple - thesaurus entry

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noun informal

someone who does bad things and influences other people so that they do bad things too
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Unorthodox beliefs, behaviour and people: bad apple, contrarian, eccentricity, extremism, freethinker, heathen, heretic, iconoclast, iconoclastic, infidel... more

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