enfant terrible

noun3

1. •
   An unconventional badly-behaved person who causes embarrassment or shock to others.

   • He was soon the talk of the town, the enfant terrible of our little world. — 2010
2. •
   An unusually successful person who is strikingly unorthodox, innovative, or avant-garde.

   • The clip shows the 67-year-old enfant terrible of French letters in pyjamas lying on a bed next to a woman in a nightie, smoking and laughing. — 2023
3. •
   (no longer used) A wild child.