Bad
Meanings and phrases
bad
- having undesirable or negative qualities
- very intense; big
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'); tough
- (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; spoiled; spoilt
- not capable of being collected; uncollectible
- below average in quality or performance
- nonstandard
- not financially safe or secure; risky; high-risk; speculative
- physically unsound or diseased; unfit; unsound
- capable of harming
- characterized by wickedness or immorality
- reproduced fraudulently; forged
- not working properly; defective
- feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; regretful; sorry
bad
- with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly'); badly
- very much; strongly; badly
bad
- that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; badness
Bad Lands
- an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska; Badlands
n.
- a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility; animosity; animus
- At that point, bad blood arose between the two administrations.
- The trade also ushered in a period of bad blood between the two teams.
- It's never been bad blood."
n.
- any person who is not on your side
- The actor is often hired to assume the "bad guy" role.
- I liked the fact that there is no good guy and bad guy.
- This led to comical "bad guy" characters becoming Otsuka's speciality.
n.
- someone who deliberately stirs up trouble; troublemaker; trouble maker; troubler; mischief-maker
n.
- an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes; misfortune; tough luck; ill luck
- an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate; mischance; mishap
- unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event; misfortune
- Anacleto is an inept secret agent with very bad luck.
- Black and blue, Falstaff laments his bad luck.
- Draugr can also kill people with bad luck.
n.
- weather unsuitable for outdoor activities; inclemency; inclementness
- The shoot was initially delayed due to bad weather.
- On the 25th, a lookout broke an arm in bad weather.
- "*" The 11th race was cancelled due to bad weather.
v.
- stop operating or functioning; fail; give way; die; give out; conk out; go; break; break down
- become unfit for consumption or use; spoil
adj.
- facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; distressed; hard-pressed; hard put
adj.
- very good; bang-up; bully; corking; cracking; dandy; great; groovy; keen; neat; nifty; peachy; slap-up; swell; smashing
- IGN said, "The music isn't memorable, but it's not bad".
- Not brilliant, not bad."
- It’s also not bad.
adj.
- deserving regret; regrettable
- It’s too bad that these hopes have been quashed.
- It's only too bad that Mr. Sim had to languish in jail."
- It's just too bad they didn't kill them."
E.g.
- I have very bad feelings about it," he later said.
- He had some very bad experiences with hard drugs."
- Anacleto is an inept secret agent with very bad luck.
E.g.
- It really got so bad that we didn't do anything.
- The bias against women was so bad at that time.
- Well, he said, the food got so bad, he said.
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- The buildings lockdown codes are hacked and the bad guys come in to kill them .
- Rayman is a rebel, fighting against mighty bad guys like in Star Wars or Robin Hood’.
- He said, ""I've been playing bad guys back to back, so Darcy's a bit of an antidote!""
E.g.
- The shoot was initially delayed due to bad weather.
- The film was not released fully due to bad reviews.
- "*" The 11th race was cancelled due to bad weather.
E.g.
- The bad news is that it’s not throwback enough."
- 'Got some bad news, I'm afraid,' David began.
- (I know from his tone that he is going to deliver bad news.)
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- What she saw was the good and bad in life.
- Characters, both good and bad, often beat up Willy for information.
- However, there are groups that could possibly a mix of good and bad singers.
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- The main legal concept in article 138 is bad faith.
- In some quarters Oppenheimer has been accused of treating his subjects in bad faith.
- Parties acting in bad faith may be able to access such voice mailboxes via Caller ID spoofing.
E.g.
- "Karma" is the accumulated sums of one's good or bad deeds.
- Yoga may have good or bad effects.
- Thus, tipsters themselves can be "tipped" as being a good or bad tipster.
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- At Nouméa, Admiral Halsey had had no conception of how bad things were.
- The temple officials state that such questions as, "Why do bad things happening to good people?
- She is able to sense the presence of "bad things" to which she would always reply "Somebody's coming".
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- Sarah falls for his bad boy image and thinks he is hot.
- And, of course, she does love a bad boy."
- The character of Josh was initially introduced as a bad boy of sorts.
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- Crabbe's shift in approach was not necessarily a bad thing.
- That's not a bad thing, though."
- bad thing, prohibition, etc.
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- Then again, who said bad taste was easy?"
- That untoward act of sportsmanship created a bad taste among people."
- We'd have spent a heap of dollars on it, and she has the bad taste to get pregnant.
E.g.
- Due to this bad reputation, the car wasn't very popular in Sweden.
- One cause of his bad reputation may have been his lack of language skills.
- This part of the city is the poorest area of Budapest with a bad reputation.
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- Holders São Paulo had a bad start losing to Fluminense 1–0.
- Walters made a bad start to the 2013–14 season against Liverpool.
- However, it got off to a bad start.
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- Ben Vernel of theDwarf.com.au felt the album was "not a bad debut.
- That's not a bad thing, though."
- And that's not a bad thing."
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- He was in bad health and died in March, 1576.
- Addicted to food, Ken is in bad health, and is headed to an early grave.
- After a month of bad health, Louis Bourgeois died at the age of 74 on August 20, 1930.
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- Food supplies were frequently in bad condition.
- Internally, the road system is in a very bad condition.
- When Peter the Great became the Tsar, the state treasury was in a bad condition.
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- Rex initially thinks drawing a new bath is a bad idea, but after recalling Mr.
- Cheri has her doubts, thinking it's a bad idea for Alex to be interested in a "civilian" (someone not in the biz).
- Spence D. of IGN Music, felt that Beyoncé's rapping in the song was a "bad idea" and described the song as "awkward, [and] horribly dated."
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- I found myself making really bad movies, too.
- She commented "I think I was really bad, to be honest, at the beginning.
- Tara on the other hand felt really bad for choosing anyone in the team and losing them.
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- Enforced with fines and often much bad publicity.
- Carbo subsequently lost his house and his salon because of the bad publicity.
- He was called back after a month because of increased bad publicity over the Ripper murders.
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- Good karma brings good rewards and bad karmas lead to bad results.
- However, after a period with bad results, he was fired on 2 October 2019.
- The bad results however returned until once again, shamrock visited Dianella Reserve.
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- I allowed at how bad this idea was.
- At Nouméa, Admiral Halsey had had no conception of how bad things were.
- There exists no letter beyond Z to accurately describe how bad Scott’s movies are.
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- The entire jute industry is in a bad shape.
- I could have wound up in pretty bad shape."
- The road from Neum to the rest of Herzegovina is in a bad shape.
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- Beside her problems Christy tries to paint Mercy in a bad light.
- However, they suffered a late collapse to be 178/7 when bad light and rain stopped the day's play.
- Play was abandoned, owing to bad light, denying a thrilling finish to the large crowd of spectators.
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- She's a bad girl who goes good and has a highly dramatic moment with a gun at the end.
- Instead of season 1 with each "bad girl" choosing who is up for elimination, the "HBIC" chooses who is up for elimination.
- However, in creating the character, Dunn sought to distinguish Areala from scantily clad bad girl antiheroines with which she might be confused.
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- Baasi (Bala Singh) is expelled from the troupe for his bad behavior.
- In 2004 and 2006, Koellerer was banned for six months due to his bad behavior.
- At the end of April 2019, Boukhanchouche got his contract terminated due to bad behavior.
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- In 1887 the buildings were in a bad state and the government grant was stopped.
- At the same time, the Spanish empire was in a bad state both military and financially.
- The tower was built in the year 1934 but was dismantled four years later because of its bad state.
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- Over Goring he was considered a bad influence.
- Nat disapproves of their friendship, as she thinks Rosa is a bad influence.
- I don't see how any type of music would have any bad influence on people when it's only music.
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- The 2003 final was the first to be played indoors; the roof was closed because of bad weather.
- However, both semi final games, to be held in Heidelberg, had to be postponed because of bad weather, and rescheduled for 12 June.
- They said, the people were forced out from the community because of bad behaviour and disrespect for custom and traditional way of living.
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- Walter Lippmann left the magazine in 1921 on bad terms with Croly.
- However, they were on bad terms.
- On bad terms with much of his extended family, he boarded with several different people.
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- When you want something bad enough in life you have to fight for it.
- Later, Amis was to say the novel "was bad enough by any reasonable standard."
- It was bad enough when Jenny slapped Maria, God knows what it's going to be like now!
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- However, many rejected dog tags as a bad omen for their lives.
- (The death of a flag-bearing elephant was considered a bad omen.)
- It is considered a bad omen to cut trees from the clump "Tani" inhabits.
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- Meanwhile, the rest of the 9-9 has to endure the other precinct, whose bad habits are driving them crazy.
- Gopal is a soft person without any bad habits, whereas Sadai is a big brute who loves drinking alcohol and sleeping with prostitutes.
- As a youth, Newton began a pattern of coming very close to death, examining his relationship with God, then relapsing into bad habits.
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- When you want something bad enough in life you have to fight for it.
- But a slow pace indicates expectation of something bad for someone else.
- Instead, the name of an era might be chosen to limit the effects of something bad.
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- They suffered a particularly bad setback in the 1990s.
- This is particularly bad if the standard deviation is small relative to the mean.
- A particularly bad shot, or one that only hits the backboard, is jocularly called a brick.
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- Arnold remarked, "Do I feel bad about the destruction the fence is causing?
- I don't feel bad about that song at all, but it could have been a big mistake."
- Also Anjali refuses to get back to home as she made them feel bad by eloping from home.