Bad and Juvenile

Bad

Bad adjective - Engaging in or marked by childish misbehavior.
Usage example: the children were bad, so they didn't get dessert

Juvenile and bad are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Juvenile" instead an adjective "Bad".

Nearby Words: badly, badness

Juvenile

Juvenile adjective - Being in the early stage of life, growth, or development.

Bad and juvenile are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bad" instead an adjective "Juvenile".

Nearby Word: juvenility

Both words in one sentence

  • Literature / Holes Truth in Television: There are many juvenile correction camps in the US that are just as bad, if not worse, than the one in this story.
  • Here he plays a juvenile delinquent who smokes, drinks, steals cars and beats the living crap out of the bad guys.
  • All Girls Want Bad Boys Parodied in Widgey Q Butterfluff, where the closest the comic's Sugar Bowl setting has to a bad boy is poodle-poking, overgrown juvenile delinquent Buster, and Widgey still finds herself inexplicably attracted to him.
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