a man who is a bad man

[Winwin2011]

How do native speakers say a man who is a bad man? Would you use "rogue"?

 

[Rover_KE]

[STRIKE]How do native speakers say a man who is a bad man?[/STRIKE] What do native English speakers call a bad man? Would you use "rogue"?

'Rogue' is one possibility. There are dozens of others; here are a few:

blackguard - cad - cheat - crook - deceiver - double-dealer - heel - knave - malefactor - mischief-maker - miscreant - rapscallion - rascal - renegade - reprobate - scalliwag - scamp -schemer - scoundrel - shark - skunk - swindler - varlet -wrongdoer

 

[Winwin2011]

1. Which of the above is more popular nowadays?
2. Is it natural to call a bad youth as "jerk"?

 

[teechar]

It all depends on the context. In what way was that person bad? What did he/she do?

 

[Rover_KE]

There are too many degrees and kinds of badness to make any generalisations.

 

[Winwin2011]

It all depends on the context. In what way was that person bad? What did he/she do?

They deceive, steal and rob.

 

[emsr2d2]

They deceive, steal and rob.

That person is a cheat, liar, thief, crook, criminal. There isn't one specific word for someone who does those kinds of things. Of the list that Rover suggested in post #2, I wouldn't use heel, rascal, scalliwag, or scamp, because they don't really suggest the serious criminal nature of his behaviour.

 

[Tdol]

And I wouldn't use jerk, which implies that someone is an idiot rather than a crook.