I don't have a problem taking down a known bad-boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

I started off by asking him about his bad-boy image.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2004] Reference

He does play up the bad-boy image at times, he does.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2006] Reference

Motley Crue ` s bad-boy drummer Tommy Lee his new reality show.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2005] Reference

Puff Daddy's career has rarely been hampered by his bad-boy image.    From Wordnik.com.  [Puffy Dodges A Bullet] Reference

Especially now that our dejected Damon is back on the bad-boy train.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watercooler: The Vampire Diaries Returns With a Bite] Reference

In the end, Nagano did nothing to dispel snowboarding's bad-boy image.    From Wordnik.com.  [Into Thick Air] Reference

Tim Riggins reverts to his bad-boy ways after a summer-long party binge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friday Night Lights is Still the Best Drama Series on Broadcast Television] Reference

HAMMER: All right, well, Colin Farrell certainly has that bad-boy image.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2005] Reference

"I'm an escapist," he tells me unrepentantly, a bad-boy twinkle in his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [African Dreamer] Reference

She thought of the detective with his black hair, dark eyes, and bad-boy smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shiver]

But it doesn't take long for his sardonic bad-boy self to break through the mask.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Wylie: 'I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet'] Reference

From drinking and painkillers in 2005, after making the bad-boy movie "Miami Vice.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2007] Reference

Along the way, the execs achieved the street cred and bad-boy rep of real rock stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road to Ruin: How Grand Theft Auto Hit the Skids] Reference

CAPLAN: Colin Farrell was great; he really went to the extreme with his bad-boy behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2007] Reference

LUDWIG: He ` s pompous and entitled, and also very closely matched with his bad-boy image.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2005] Reference

In the worlds of sports and pop culture, his bad-boy image is part of his marketing appeal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blame It On Rios] Reference

But what does the original bad-boy dad have to say about the reality star ` s newest romance?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2009] Reference

In fact, that seemed to be the whole point of his visit; undoing his hard-earned bad-boy image.    From Wordnik.com.  [George and Harry: Our Special Correspondent Gets the Royal Stiff-Arm at Star-Studded Manhattan Polo Classic] Reference

Attracted to his wealth, his social status … and tantalized by his former bad-boy reputation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purchased By The Billionaire]

Watching Rove court his bad-boy mystique, couched in his doughboy physique, is actually pathetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Linda Milazzo: Karl Rove Addresses Students at Bill Clinton's School of Public Service] Reference

But he can't seem to get to her without sort of allowing his alter-ego bad-boy self to take over.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2010] Reference

Still, heads turned when he married Houston: his bad-boy rep hardly meshed with her squeaky-clean pop image.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Boys To Men] Reference

And bad-boy numbers like "Folsom Prison Blues," where the singer "shot a man in Reno just to watch him die"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cashing In on a Legend] Reference

He traces the bad-boy lineage of poets like Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud — so-called poètes maudits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Liaisons] Reference

Yet this movie -- about a demon with a bad-boy attitude and good-guy heart -- may well develop into a sleeper hit.    From Wordnik.com.  [PERISCOPE] Reference

Despite his lingering New Wave bad-boy image, Costello has a musicologist's passion for different styles and genres.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odd Couple] Reference

Oscar winner Coppola, 39, will showcase her movie starring Stephen Dorff as a bad-boy actor struggling through life.    From Wordnik.com.  [79 films to premiere at Venice festival, including those by Aronofsky, Affleck] Reference

For what it's worth, Hollywood seems to be rooting for De Luca again, and his bad-boy reputation is clearly receding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollywood's Bad Boy Makes Good] Reference

One-time bad-boy rockers the Rolling Stones went corporate as the first major rock act to sign on a concert-tour sponsor.    From Wordnik.com.  ['I'm With the Brand'] Reference

He may have put his bad-boy days behind him, but he still knows how to operate, both on the street and in the music business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dizzee Rascal: Fight to the top] Reference

Soccer players, long an object of British obsession, once enjoyed a protective bubble that minimized revelation of their bad-boy antics.    From Wordnik.com.  [WSJ.com: What's News US] Reference

What resulted was an 18-track album of such bad-boy, Dionysian swagger that it's been rereleased on format after format in the years since.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gimme Danger] Reference