| 单词 | bad lot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbad lot b. Chiefly colloquial or regional. With modifying (usually depreciative) adjective: a person regarded as having the specified character or quality. Esp. in bad lot.For uses of bad lot, etc., referring to a group of people of a specified character, see sense 15. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [noun] > person of bad character argha1275 noughty packc1520 dunghill1542 land-rat1600 black sheep1640 cacodemon1711 mauvais sujet1793 bad lot1835 badmash1843 rotter1879 wrong 'un1892 wrongo1937 1835 C. Whitehead Autobiogr. Jack Ketch ix. 102 The colloguing varmint was always a comin', arter you toddled, and I began to think, dang it, he's a bad lot. 1862 Mrs. H. Wood Channings II. xvii. 257 Charley's not a bad lot, and he sha'n't be harmed. 1892 Two Tales 25 June 64 I don't want to rob her—indeed I don't, sir. She's a good lot, much too good for me. 1894 Mrs. H. Ward Marcella III. iv. v. 345 I'm a bad lot, I know—well, an idle lot—I don't think I am a bad lot. 1930 N. Coward Private Lives iii. 77 I ought never to have married you; I'm a bad lot. 1966 M. Golden Fielding's Moral Psychol. iv. 86 Western is that favorite figure of eighteenth-century speculation, the natural man, unaffected either by social rules or by religion, and a mixed lot he is. 2003 C. Birch Turn again Home xxix. 314 That Edward was turning out a right bad lot, mucking about all day long in the road with his yobby little pals. < as lemmas |
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