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Definition of bad in English: badadjectiveworst, worse badbæd 1Of poor quality or a low standard. Example sentencesExamples - Who wants stuff of doubtful or bad quality, even if it's given for half the price?
- More big fish are lost through bad knots or poor quality crimping than for any other reason.
- Because of the bad quality of the bank video, it is not clear exactly what happened.
- Although ground water here is abundant, it is of such bad quality that it is considered a health risk.
- The sound quality was so bad that it had to be lowered as the Dolby sorround was not working properly
- The film's incredibly bad storyline was only surpassed by the poor acting.
- All share some of the ailments of old age, including poor memories, fading eyesight and bad hearing.
- He will also witness bad pass after poor tackle and some woeful marking.
- Complain about their bad grammar or poor choice of headlines or biased editorials.
- International standards identify bad loans as those without servicing for three months.
- The problem now is that the generators in many areas are starting to break down due to constant use and the bad quality of the fuel.
- This leads me to the question who is responsible for such bad quality design and materials and who pays for it?
- Poor decision making, bad handling and lack of enterprise ensured their efforts came to nothing.
- Poor or bad management covers a multitude of sins that could include all of the above and more.
- The dialogue is even more aimless, the image quality is bad, and the acting is not up to par.
- The old building was criticised for poor condition, bad layout and having too few interview rooms.
- The poor living conditions, bad diet, lack of exercise and now being alone have all taken their toll.
- There were a lot of bad websites at one point where the loading was bad, quality of images were poor and the interface was clumsy.
- In many ways there are so many bad films, and the blame actually goes to the audience because that's what they want.
- It also criticised the windows' poor design as a bad example to other developers.
Synonyms substandard, poor, inferior, second-rate, second-class, unsatisfactory, inadequate, unacceptable, not up to scratch, not up to par, deficient, imperfect, defective, faulty, shoddy, amateurish, careless, negligent dreadful, awful, terrible, abominable, frightful, atrocious, disgraceful, deplorable, hopeless, worthless, laughable, lamentable, miserable, sorry, third-rate, diabolical, execrable incompetent, inept, inexpert, ineffectual informal crummy, rotten, pathetic, useless, woeful, bum, lousy, ropy, appalling, abysmal, pitiful, God-awful, dire, poxy, not up to snuff, the pits British informal duff, chronic, rubbish, pants, a load of pants vulgar slang crap, shit, chickenshit rare egregious - 1.1 (of a person) not able to do a particular thing well.
Example sentencesExamples - It goes to show that you can be good at oratory but bad at leading.
- Instead they are labelled as bad at maths or stupid when, in fact, what they have is really no more than number blindness.
- So, being bad at golf actually burns up more calories than being good at it.
- The logic goes that the people will vote out someone who is bad at the job.
- It all seems so cruel that I should be so bad at parenting yet have such an easy time conceiving.
- There will also be a session on how to start a sex magazine and another on why the British are so bad at pornography.
- I'm actually really bad at condensing peoples names to just one or two characters.
- Well, being very bad at accepting any kind of compliment, I will just shuffle my feet a bit here.
- They happen to be really bad at managing their bugs, and not providing fixes on time, but that's another issue.
- Now, having said all that, it still has to be said that Dawn is pretty bad at fantasy football.
- The two were both horribly bad at the game, but had had fun laughing and poking fun at each other about it.
- I'm also really very bad at choosing music to play for other people.
- I wondered when I'd become so bad at articulating any kind of helpful advice.
- Yes, I do think that sometimes philosophers are very bad at it, because they don't think about it.
- I'm not sure why humans are so bad at planning for the future, especially for those things we can predict.
- Fathers are seen as particularly bad at communicating with their children and getting involved with their lives.
- I have shaky hands and weak wrists, and am very bad at carrying drinks and plates.
- How does being good or bad at sport when you're a child affect you as an adult?
- Why are women so good at working collaboratively and men so bad at it?
- My criticism is that most publishers are very bad at making a profit.
- 1.2 Not appropriate in a particular situation.
morning was a bad time to ask Andy about anything Example sentencesExamples - Is now a bad time to ask how much you are spending on prenatal and pregnancy-related health care?
- There's a good time and a bad time to ask your boss for more money.
- Consumers mistakenly believe it's a bad time to get good mortgage.
Synonyms inauspicious, disadvantageous, adverse, difficult, inopportune, unpropitious, inappropriate, unsuitable, unfavourable, unfortunate, untoward informal disastrous
2Not such as to be hoped for or desired; unpleasant or unwelcome. it was the worst day of his life Example sentencesExamples - I still wake up and look over the bed and hope it's a bad dream and he'll be lying there next to me.
- I was hoping it was a bad dream or at best a hallucination from a midnight toilet break.
- I was determined to ride out the bad times in hope that the good times were still to come.
- The good news (or bad, depending on how you look at it) is that I'm not the only one who feels this way.
- Local fishermen are counting the cost of bad weather but, hopefully, can return to work early this week.
- The forecast for the rest of the week looks pretty grim and the bad weather looks like staying with us.
- Over the last two years, the news has been uniformly bad, with every club in the SPL forced to downturn its finances.
- Unfortunately, we had a lot of bad weather recently and an extraordinary amount of games were called off.
- And my father was not to accept excuses about the strokes of bad luck or the bad weather.
- A local farmer praised milk tanker drivers for their perseverance during the awful spate of bad weather.
- I don't want to do anything today and if the weather's bad, I'll say what an awful day.
- But the news from Ireland was bad: trustworthy tenants were thin on the ground.
- He tells her that he almost hopes something bad would happen to her so that he could save her at any cost.
- Sitting in his Hong Kong office, he reports that there is good news and bad.
- I went out to the deck, hoping even with the bad weather that I could train a bit.
- Even the TV had the grace to allow a bad weather news day to take precedence.
- I feel I'm on a roller-coaster at the moment - first good news then bad as things go right and then oh so wrong.
- In the days before the wireless, he was trained to bear news of imminent bad weather from island to island.
- Pacifism is absolutely not about shutting your eyes and hoping all the bad things will go away.
- Quake victims grab what they can in aid, while bad weather slows down the relief.
Synonyms unpleasant, disagreeable, unwelcome, unfortunate, unfavourable, unlucky, adverse, nasty terrible, dreadful, awful, grim, distressing, regrettable archaic or humorous parlous - 2.1 (of something causing pain, danger, or other unwelcome consequences) severe or serious.
Example sentencesExamples - As for pollution, when you sit in traffic in Lancaster with all the heavy goods vehicles the pollution is very bad.
- At 12.47 a call is received from a patient recently discharged from hospital after a hip operation and now in very bad pain.
- My vision is affected and the pain is so bad that I can't do anything until it goes away.
- The first seemed more likely, and all the muscles in my body tensed for a bad blow.
- Migraines can cause very bad pain that can get in the way of your normal routine.
- The dumbest thing is that the pain isn't bad enough to make me feel like I should stay home.
- The wagon overturned and Clyde took a bad spill, injuring one of his legs.
- I had chests pains, a very bad headache and my eyes were sore and bloodshot.
- The former factory worker has now given up work because the pain is so bad that sometimes she cannot walk.
- The water was a bit soapy and although she never got pregnant, she had some really bad aches and pains for weeks after that.
- Imagine having air forced into your lungs when you have a bad chest infection?
- You know I think there are really bad problems with pollution in Johannesburg.
- He visited his doctor who sent him home and when he phoned later that afternoon his chest pains were still bad so an ambulance was called.
- Anyone who has ever suffered a bad toothache or a broken tooth, will know that emergency treatment is a must.
- The best way to describe the pain in my hands and feet is during the morning, it is like a bad toothache.
- I still have a bad cough as my body rids itself of sickness, but my head feels good.
- Light pollution is so bad that many people in this country can no longer see the stars, research showed yesterday.
- The pain was so bad that you told me that you were going to go to the hospital.
- Beijing was bidding to bring the world's finest athletes to a city with very bad air pollution.
- It wasn't a bad wound, just painful, and he would need to rest for several more days.
Synonyms severe, serious, grave, critical, grievous, acute, dreadful, terrible, awful, ghastly, dire, grim, frightful, shocking life-threatening Medicine peracute - 2.2 Unfavourable; adverse.
Example sentencesExamples - A good or bad review by a fashion writer or food critic for example can make or break a designer or restaurant.
- Seen from that point of view, it is evident that even a bad review is better than none at all.
- And that, my friends, just when I thought it would never end, is the last of the ten bad movie reviews.
- Even bad reviews and previews usually have a nice sentence or two about the game.
- You have a tendency to believe the reviews that are good and trash the reviews that are bad.
- It's not simply a bad review from the point of view of its subject - it's a bad review from every angle.
- There are some really bad reviews of it, but I would kind of like to take a look at it nonetheless.
- If they didn't spin, they'd suffer bad press and PR disasters by the day.
- What if I hate it and have to write a bad review about their friend's band?
- I've only seen one bad review and that was from some mug that clearly hadn't even played it.
- We find it hilarious whenever we get bad reviews because it has absolute zero effect on our sales.
- What about the kids who because of zoning have to go to a school that has a bad Education Review Office report?
- He was sick, the production had all sorts of problems and the result was his first really bad reviews.
- It has been a sorry period for Swindon's schools, and the reasons behind the town's bad marks are difficult to boil down.
- The worst thing is when your mother calls you on the phone to read you your bad reviews out loud.
- I used to think this was a form of compensation, a kind of insurance policy for a bad grade or a poor paper.
- A musician once said to me if you don't get any bad reviews you're not doing your job.
- He had the disgruntled air of a writer whinging over a bad review.
- Normally, if you see a bad review on a Christmas movie its on some real syrupy, schmaltzy one.
- I've come across a lot of bad reviews and people who didn't like it though, and I'm kind of lost as to why.
- 2.3bad for Having a harmful effect on.
soap was bad for his face Example sentencesExamples - I know it's bad for me, that I should be doing stuff, any stuff just so long as I keep active.
- It was bad for Sri Lanka, but not catastrophic if they can win at least one more game.
- In plain English, smoking looks bad, smells bad, and is just downright bad for you.
- If that does not happen, it will be bad for him, worse still for Britain, and even worse for the world.
- That said, stories like this are bad for the sport, and that affects all of us.
- Is spending too much time online really bad for you because you miss out on personal interaction?
- It's about a very contemporary cultural superstition that love is actually bad for you.
- Marriage as it stands is good for children, good for husbands and bad for wives.
- If I did not know better, I would have to say that running is bad for you, with both of us seriously ill.
- So let's not get fooled by our astrologer pals who claim one number or another is bad for us.
- We are all told that to eat a healthy diet we need to cut down on sweets and sweet foods, however not all sweets are bad for you.
- But the fact that being a man is bad for you may also have much to do with men's attitude to health.
- Christmas shopping could be bad for your health, a top physiotherapist has warned.
- Whether it is good for you or not, I would contend that all food can be good for you or it can be bad for you.
- The doctors do not say that all exercise is bad for you: they even recommend a little walking.
- Some flower beds and tubs have been planted up but the weather has been to bad for painting.
- But it is possible that you dislike a thing which is good for you, and like a thing which is bad for you.
- To be fair, not all of the legislation brought in by the Scottish Parliament is bad for business.
- I doubt anything much can be done to stop the recession and this will be bad for IT spending.
- It is essentially a conceptual war, confusing for pundits and bad for television.
Synonyms harmful, damaging, detrimental, undesirable, injurious, hurtful, inimical, dangerous, destructive, ruinous, deleterious unhealthy, unwholesome
3Failing to conform to standards of moral virtue or acceptable conduct. Example sentencesExamples - Despite its official backing the book pulls no punches and includes tales of the singer's bullying and bad behaviour.
- Ben informs us that his good grades are like a licence for bad behaviour.
- Here she tells her about her real self and why she likes being bad on screen
- Three prison officers gave evidence yesterday about the penalties for reporting bad behaviour by colleagues.
- We turn our backs on the fact that bad behavior sells seats and bad behavior begets more of the same.
- She wins her over with headstrong antics, while she goes about being a bad little rich girl.
- What enrages you now is not last night's bad behaviour but a lifetime of bad behaviour and the marriage is over.
- Teachers in Hull will be quizzed about their pupils' bad behaviour in a survey into classroom violence.
- The general level of ignorance on what is good or bad behaviour is compounded by the idealisation of childhood.
- Not all young people are bad, but there seems to be a growing number of them with a lack of respect for anything or anyone.
- What happens when one's bad behaviour is considered as usual and is no longer condemned or even commented on?
- Young footballers who copy the bad behaviour of their professional heroes are receiving adult-size bans.
- But bad behaviour is on the increase since the town council replaced the benches last month, they said.
- Now they are calling for a public meeting with police to try and tackle the issues of bad behaviour before the project gets into full swing.
- This New York circus duo have been a hit off-Broadway with their brand of vaudeville, kitsch and bad behaviour.
- With the bad attitude comes the bad behaviour the tabloids love.
- It shouldn't be just up to the police to deal with bad behaviour.
- Teachers also noticed a reduction in criminal and bad behaviour.
- Rather than letting prisoners out early for good behaviour, it might be more sensible to keep them in longer for bad behaviour.
- However, the hawks would say that's just giving in to blackmail, rewarding bad behaviour.
Synonyms wicked, sinful, immoral, evil, morally wrong, corrupt, base, black-hearted, reprobate, depraved, degenerate, dissolute, amoral - 3.1 (of language) using words generally considered offensive; vulgar.
Example sentencesExamples - He stood and thought how he could get it down; he tried long plastic piping, ladders and bad words.
- People these days are so caught up in work that leisure is a bad word in their vocabulary.
- She has even invented a mechanical parrot that speaks bad French.
- The aunt snapped back at her ‘no’, that Aids was a bad word and that she was not to mention it again.
- I believed that if I got a cold sore or bit my tongue, it was a punishment for lying or saying a bad word.
- They were swearing at me as I laid on the floor, with very bad words.
- That's right, not only do they have a new CD out, they actually say bad words on this album.
- Well there were bad words said, of that there is no doubt but I think the happy couple is back on speaking terms.
- Some youngsters even ask adults for cigarettes on the streets and spit out bad words at them if rejected.
- You should have seen the tantrum I threw, banging the floor with my fist and saying bad words.
- He went to Trinidad to do a show and when he was performing, let loose a stream of bad words.
- Speak very bad words to him in the 90 minutes and, after that, say you're sorry.
Synonyms offensive, vulgar, crude, foul, obscene, rude, coarse, smutty, dirty, filthy, indecent, indecorous blasphemous, profane
4(of a part of the body) injured, diseased, or painful. Example sentencesExamples - Carefully I slip out from under the covers and I gingerly try putting weight on my bad leg.
- After struggling to get it over my bad arm I succeeded and headed downstairs.
- I pressed the pedal of Josh's bed with my bad foot and it slowly began to rise.
- After all, our national inheritance also includes heart disease, damp and bad teeth.
- She grabbed my bad arm and my shoulder then popped in back into its socket.
- Last night my parents told me to consider not dancing anymore because my bad knee has kept me out more or less for the last few months.
- It was hot still, perhaps even hotter, and some daft woman crashed into my bad leg with her trolley, so my even temper was becoming strained.
- Being a very active person who resented my bad back and all the restrictions, I was not pleased to be encouraged to lie flat each afternoon.
- Her son joined another queue to have his bad back checked and would be there for hours, so we took her to our hotel to rest.
- I used my good leg to pull myself up and my bad leg to steady myself on.
- I was a little tipsy from the beers I had been drinking and the two vicodin I had eaten for my bad back.
- I was taking Baja out for a bathroom run when he yanked me and I slipped on an ice patch, twisting my bad knee.
- I attempted to sit up on my bad arm but quickly realized that wasn't possible.
- My chair is SO uncomfortable, and doesn't support my bad back at all.
- I took a wobbly step on my bad ankle, and instantly, unbearable pain shot up my leg, causing me to fall to my knees.
- My father ignored her and he grabbed me by my bad arm and pulled me towards my mother, who was still lying on the floor.
- He hit me in my bad shoulder, the one that got shot, so I hit the ground, and pretended it hurt horribly.
Synonyms injured, wounded, diseased British informal gammy, knackered Australian/New Zealand informal crook dated game - 4.1as complement (of a person) unwell.
I tried medication but felt even worse the next morning Example sentencesExamples - I had started feeling pretty ill by this point, and Scott had been feeling pretty bad since after the hike.
- Would allergic kids let us know if they felt bad or accidentally contacted something?
- Tell her how bad your acne makes you feel and ask if she'll set up a dermatologist's visit for you.
- Those days I just wanna kick the dirt or maybe just sit there and think about how bad I feel.
- Pain is your body's way of telling you to stop, and ignoring it will not only make you feel bad but probably injure you into the bargain.
- Even if you don't feel that bad, meningitis is a quick moving disease so it's better to be safe than sorry.
- I get home, still feeling pretty bad, take a look at my helmet and discover that the crash cracked it in 3 places.
- I waited only an hour in the emergency room, and by now, I was feeling pretty bad.
Synonyms ill, unwell, sick, not well, not very well, ailing, poorly, sickly, peaky, afflicted, indisposed, infirm, liverish
5(of food) decayed; putrid. everything in the fridge went bad Example sentencesExamples - The stray dogs may be hungrier, but I don't think they ever ate that bad rice.
- Second, if fruit went bad during shipment, the wrappers offered some way of containing the spoilage.
- The next morning, things got worse as half of our food went bad.
- Many feared that if the food went bad and somebody became ill that they would be liable and could be sued.
- You can't get much sleep; and the kids are throwing up because the food is bad.
Synonyms rotten, off, decayed, decomposed, decomposing, putrid, putrefied, putrescent, mouldy, mouldering sour, rancid, rank, unfit for human consumption addled maggoty, worm-eaten, wormy, flyblown rare putrefactive, putrefacient - 5.1 (of the atmosphere) polluted; unhealthy.
Example sentencesExamples - Does the arachnid feel a difference in the air between a bad ozone day and a good one?
- If economic growth continues, there are bound to be more cars spewing bad air.
- This, in conjunction with bad water, leads to the wildfire spread of many infectious diseases and greatly increases diarrhea among children.
- This time I went quickly through surfacing into a spacious airbell, alert for signs of bad air.
- There must be a magic line down the middle of the street that divides the good air from the bad air.
- If you've been watering your plant with bad water for several months, and the plant is clearly declining, things are bad.
- The air was still pretty bad, but the tunnel was larger and much less foreboding.
- Now, the fire is still going on and the air is still bad, so I had a serious breathing problem.
- Yet he was right behind Siri and was getting bad air from her sail, so he tacked out on port to get clear air.
- Soon a fan the size of a card table is pulling the bad air out the street door.
- Unless you live in an area with bad water (like... a swamp or toxic waste dump) I can't imagine using anything but tap water.
6as complement Regretful, guilty, or ashamed about something. she feels bad about ending their engagement I feel bad that our business is benefiting from something so horrible Example sentencesExamples - I feel slightly bad, but hope you guessed correctly which option I would go for.
- It seems the front door was actually unlocked, so the girls felt bad about me falling for naught.
- I felt so bad, so ashamed of the person I am today, so worthless, so empty, so useless.
- I don't feel bad about it for myself, but I feel bad for the effect it had on Rafael.
- He says dentists feel bad about the situation but he insists their hands are tied.
- I feel so bad for those who have missing family members because I was in their shoes just a sort time ago.
- Did he feel bad sending our boys into battle without adequate body armour?
- It made me feel real bad for him, and for the way I and others were feeling towards him.
- Of the rest of us, only one was wearing a suit, though, so I didn't feel too bad.
- She had been a bitch to Michelle and she felt bad about it after Hope had put it in the light.
- What happened afterwards was a terrible blow, and I felt bad for all the other players.
- Rannie came by to check on me, but I was feeling so bad I hardly said anything to him.
- Luckily I hated the thing so I don't feel too bad about getting a new one.
Synonyms guilty, conscience-stricken, remorseful, guilt-ridden, ashamed, chastened, contrite, sorry, full of regret, regretful, repentant, penitent, shamefaced, self-reproachful, apologetic 7Worthless; not valid. Example sentencesExamples - After a couple of traffic offense cases and a few bad check writers were dealt with, he married us.
- He financed his activities by cashing millions of dollars in bad checks.
- Passing a bad check is a felony.
- He relies on the telephone and on an eye trained by expensive experience to ferret out bad checks.
- The bank has been dogged by bad real estate loans since it was formed by the merger of two Munich-based banks in 1998.
- They said my Child was clean but because there were bad checks written there was going to be a trial.
- However bad or good these checks are depends on the publication, but they are there.
- He had already suffered the loss when he received the bad cheque from her.
- He suffered money problems and was arrested for passing a bad cheque and other financial charges.
- One of my earlier cases was investigating a bad cheque that had been passed at a local merchant.
- They may steal, write bad checks or commit illegal activities to finance their habit.
- The geeks will not inherit the earth: They spend too much time watching movies and checking for bad physics.
Synonyms invalid, worthless counterfeit, fake, false, spurious, fraudulent informal bogus, phoney, dud 8North American informal Good; excellent. they want the baddest, best-looking Corvette there is Example sentencesExamples - ‘It was the baddest car I'd ever seen and I promised myself right then that one day I'd have one just like it.’
- He was amusing, and he made me feel as if I was the baddest one in the place.
- She knew she was badder than these wannabe hoodlums.
Synonyms excellent, wonderful, marvellous, magnificent, superb, splendid, glorious, sublime, lovely, delightful, first-class, first-rate, outstanding
adverb badbæd North American informal Badly. Example sentencesExamples - Papa wanted to strap on one of those gliders and run off that hill so bad he could taste it.
- I must have hurt her real bad without realising it.
- I tell you, if we start to win again, I want to beat them real bad this time.
- I fancy her real bad!
- No matter how bad I threw the ball, it was still going to knock down at least one pin.
- It would be disrespectful of me to talk bad of her on a forum that everybody can read.
- I have a problem using your templates, and I want them real bad.
Phrases Into an even worse state. the country's going from bad to worse Example sentencesExamples - This has only turned things from bad to worse because the buses have to now ply on a narrow road before reaching the road connecting Town Hall.
- She was talking about when things went from bad to worse, and how to document that moment.
- Therefore it will reduce the already insufficient number of road lanes, and hence the situation will go from bad to worse.
- Back in the party things were going from bad to worse.
- This is one of those days, however, that just keeps going from bad to worse, as Brandon and his passengers are soon to discover.
- The endowment mortgage crisis just goes from bad to worse.
- Sensing the situation moving from bad to worse, the reporter sought help from a Boston police officer on duty nearby.
- The week has gone from bad to worse for the Wexford County Board.
- He was switched to left back - his natural position - at the beginning of the current season and things have gone from bad to worse.
- But with the eradication of that status, the financial position of the State had gone from bad to worse.
Sammy shivered. He was in a bad way the fleet was in a bad way, mainly due to a shortage of spares Example sentencesExamples - His teeth were too long, his hooves in a bad way and he had septicaemia, a disease caused by toxic micro-organisms in the blood.
- His arms were in a bad way - there were no bandages on him at that stage.
- I couldn't see her face when they pulled her out, but she looked in a bad way.
- They kept stopping for breaks and water and the girl was in a bad way.
- He was in a bad way so I took him home to nurse him and planned to bring him back when he was independent at three months old.
- He looked in a bad way and I think they took him off at Singapore.
- A nearby householder, who did not want to be named, said: ‘He's in a bad way and is going to need plastic surgery.’
- She looked in a bad way, but there was very little anybody could do.
- He was in a bad way, so very weak, only the occasional half-hearted flap of his wings.
- He has been standing up on his own, which is a good sign, and he is eating, but his nostrils and throat are still in a bad way.
Synonyms unwell, sick, not well, not very well, ailing, poorly, sickly, peaky, afflicted, indisposed, infirm, liverish
informal Used to acknowledge responsibility for a mistake. Sorry I lost your CD. It's my bad Example sentencesExamples - Sorry, it's my bad and my poor English.
- I didn't flip the shirt over to see that there is in fact an Ivory-billed Woodpecker on the back, my bad.
- I'm sorry, it's my bad.
- Just kidding; it didn't take long at all - sorry for the linguistic impasse, my bad.
- I hate when people say ‘my bad’ it's so annoying, just say ‘sorry’ for god's sake.
Used to express approval in an understated or qualified way. a little uncertainty is no bad thing you can hear traces of The Stones and Dylan coming through, which is no bad thing Example sentencesExamples - He said however that it was no bad thing that it was raining.
- If this poll sets some alarm bells ringing at the top that might be no bad thing.
- This has to be seen in the context of a tour where the company is performing five Handel operas, and one near miss out of five is no bad thing.
- Artistic competition is no bad thing.
- A self-sufficient childhood is no bad thing.
- This movie harks back to a simpler time for cinema, and in today's world of bloated blockbusters, that's no bad thing.
- The first time on hearing them I was less than impressed, but some of the band's best songs are growers so that's no bad thing.
- That journalists should be sceptical about large firms is no bad thing.
- In a way it's sad to think I've been to my last performance but then it lost a lot of character so maybe it's no bad thing.
- Martial law was no bad thing in the circumstances.
she discovered he wasn't so bad after all Example sentencesExamples - He's actually not bad… which reminds me, I take it you've seen this excellent ad now.
- This was not so bad as the grill was on on quite low.
- It is not so bad if I space out my work, family and other commitments.
- The replacement sounds I have are not bad; in fact, they are good in their own right.
- I hope you had better weather for them than the kind we are having now-a-days, but it is not so bad here considering it is winter.
- But after a few trips to the toilet and some painkillers it's not so bad.
- I left the chillies out from the original recipe and the result was a little uninspiring, but not bad for a first attempt.
- There's still a mad scramble the night before, but it's not so bad.
- That's not so bad for a first show, but we hoped for bigger walkup.
- They offer a good range of vegetarian food, the prices are not bad, and they give lovely big portions.
Synonyms all right, quite good, good, adequate, acceptable, good enough, reasonable, fair, decent, average, tolerable, passable, middling, moderate, sufficiently good, fine informal OK, so-so, fair-to-middling North American & Australian/New Zealand informal jake
I hate to see you going to the bad Example sentencesExamples - The Britain of this film is a vision of modernity gone to the bad.
- It may be stretching the point, but I was reminded of the severed heads adorning the house of another exemplar of humanity gone to the bad.
- The third key process I wish to identify is chiefly to the bad.
- In many ways, Peter's is the classic story of a youngster who turned to the bad because he could not see any way forward.
- Then came the terrible film in which we were expected to believe that she was a well brought up English gal gone to the bad.
- The husband, left with a ‘keen three-year-old baby’, went to the bad, took to opium, and died.
- ‘I think I'd go to the bad very quickly,’ he says gravely.
- He is, to put it a bit too flippantly, a snail geneticist gone to the bad.
Example sentencesExamples - But when they finished the first half two points to the bad, after playing with the aid of a significant breeze, they were always unlikely to prevail.
- Now he shows up unannounced with his passive-aggressive Chinese flute at The Bride's wedding rehearsal, like Caine gone to the bad.
- Against a Sale side lacking two noted match-winners in Robinson and Hodgson, Glasgow were soon eight points to the bad.
- For all Livingston's openings they were two to the bad after the hour mark.
- Defending their European Cup Winners' Cup, Ferguson's side emerged at Pittodrie two goals to the bad against Dosza of Hungary.
- As for a final round that he will start five shots to the bad, Monty was cautiously optimistic.
- Wessels, the South African, who had began the day at six under finished four shots to the bad.
- At half-time, as they trudged off three goals to the bad, it looked like both a hiding and nothing.
- With one minute of normal time to elapse, Athlone were a goal to the bad.
informal Used to indicate that something is regrettable but is now beyond retrieval. too bad, but that's the way it is Example sentencesExamples - It would be too bad if professional boxing had to be stopped because there is a lot of good talent here.
- The family photo isn't there, which is too bad because they picked a pretty good one.
- Some guests rarely venture out, which is too bad, since they miss the true magic of Madeira.
- In a way it's too bad, but if he becomes a casualty, it will be his own fault.
- It's too bad that most of his monologues were so focused on current events because it made them hard to watch now.
- It's too bad, but this is still a country where those who speak the truth are targeted.
- Thicks lips are not supposed to be considered to be an aesthetic thing, so too bad.
- The fact is there is no queue but we still insist they are jumping one so that's just too bad.
- It's called socialism, and if the rich squeal like pigs in a poke then too bad.
- Now when that means you lose a little money on the stock market or whatever, that's too bad.
Derivatives adjective ˈbadɪʃˈbædɪʃ But I think you should tell her before something baddish happens. Example sentencesExamples - And the few complaints always turned out to be about the same couple of baddish apples, like the dragon lady.
- The woman, with the baddish cat following closely at her heels, entered the Bilkins mansion, reached her chamber in the attic without being intercepted, and there laid aside her finery.
- It will have biggish - not to mention baddish - shoes to fill.
- Then, when I'm having a baddish moment they come up and be nice to me, then I spit something back in their face that I'd rather not and the cycle of being ignored begins again.
Origin Middle English: perhaps from Old English bǣddel 'hermaphrodite, womanish man'. Homophobia may lie at the root of the meaning of bad. The word appeared in the 13th century, and at that time had two syllables, like baddy. This suggests that it may be a shortening of Old English bæddel ‘effeminate man, hermaphrodite’. Bad was specifically applied to coins with a reduced content of precious metal. This gives us the bad penny, which ‘always turns up’. Debased coinage also features in the proverb bad money drives out good, also known as Gresham's law, after Queen Elizabeth I's chief financial adviser Sir Thomas Gresham (1519–79). He observed that people tended to hang on to coins of a high intrinsic value, like gold sovereigns, while being happier to spend those of a lower intrinsic worth but equal face value. At the end of the 19th century bad underwent a complete reversal of meaning in US black slang, and in the 1920s jazz enthusiasts began to use it as a term of approval—something ‘bad’ was now ‘good’. Compare with the development of funk, wicked
Rhymes ad, add, Allahabad, Baghdad, bedad, begad, cad, Chad, clad, dad, egad, fad, forbade, gad, glad, grad, had, lad, mad, pad, plaid, rad, Riyadh, sad, scad, shad, Strad, tad, trad Definition of bad in US English: badadjectivebadbæd 1Of poor quality or a low standard. Example sentencesExamples - Poor or bad management covers a multitude of sins that could include all of the above and more.
- Complain about their bad grammar or poor choice of headlines or biased editorials.
- Poor decision making, bad handling and lack of enterprise ensured their efforts came to nothing.
- Although ground water here is abundant, it is of such bad quality that it is considered a health risk.
- The film's incredibly bad storyline was only surpassed by the poor acting.
- There were a lot of bad websites at one point where the loading was bad, quality of images were poor and the interface was clumsy.
- More big fish are lost through bad knots or poor quality crimping than for any other reason.
- The problem now is that the generators in many areas are starting to break down due to constant use and the bad quality of the fuel.
- The sound quality was so bad that it had to be lowered as the Dolby sorround was not working properly
- The old building was criticised for poor condition, bad layout and having too few interview rooms.
- All share some of the ailments of old age, including poor memories, fading eyesight and bad hearing.
- Who wants stuff of doubtful or bad quality, even if it's given for half the price?
- Because of the bad quality of the bank video, it is not clear exactly what happened.
- This leads me to the question who is responsible for such bad quality design and materials and who pays for it?
- International standards identify bad loans as those without servicing for three months.
- In many ways there are so many bad films, and the blame actually goes to the audience because that's what they want.
- The dialogue is even more aimless, the image quality is bad, and the acting is not up to par.
- He will also witness bad pass after poor tackle and some woeful marking.
- It also criticised the windows' poor design as a bad example to other developers.
- The poor living conditions, bad diet, lack of exercise and now being alone have all taken their toll.
Synonyms substandard, poor, inferior, second-rate, second-class, unsatisfactory, inadequate, unacceptable, not up to scratch, not up to par, deficient, imperfect, defective, faulty, shoddy, amateurish, careless, negligent - 1.1 (of a person) not able to do a particular thing well.
Example sentencesExamples - Now, having said all that, it still has to be said that Dawn is pretty bad at fantasy football.
- There will also be a session on how to start a sex magazine and another on why the British are so bad at pornography.
- I'm actually really bad at condensing peoples names to just one or two characters.
- My criticism is that most publishers are very bad at making a profit.
- I'm also really very bad at choosing music to play for other people.
- It goes to show that you can be good at oratory but bad at leading.
- Instead they are labelled as bad at maths or stupid when, in fact, what they have is really no more than number blindness.
- The two were both horribly bad at the game, but had had fun laughing and poking fun at each other about it.
- Why are women so good at working collaboratively and men so bad at it?
- How does being good or bad at sport when you're a child affect you as an adult?
- So, being bad at golf actually burns up more calories than being good at it.
- It all seems so cruel that I should be so bad at parenting yet have such an easy time conceiving.
- The logic goes that the people will vote out someone who is bad at the job.
- I wondered when I'd become so bad at articulating any kind of helpful advice.
- They happen to be really bad at managing their bugs, and not providing fixes on time, but that's another issue.
- I'm not sure why humans are so bad at planning for the future, especially for those things we can predict.
- Well, being very bad at accepting any kind of compliment, I will just shuffle my feet a bit here.
- I have shaky hands and weak wrists, and am very bad at carrying drinks and plates.
- Fathers are seen as particularly bad at communicating with their children and getting involved with their lives.
- Yes, I do think that sometimes philosophers are very bad at it, because they don't think about it.
- 1.2 Not appropriate in a particular situation.
morning was a bad time to ask Andy about anything Example sentencesExamples - Consumers mistakenly believe it's a bad time to get good mortgage.
- Is now a bad time to ask how much you are spending on prenatal and pregnancy-related health care?
- There's a good time and a bad time to ask your boss for more money.
Synonyms inauspicious, disadvantageous, adverse, difficult, inopportune, unpropitious, inappropriate, unsuitable, unfavourable, unfortunate, untoward
2Not such as to be hoped for or desired; unpleasant or unwelcome. Example sentencesExamples - A local farmer praised milk tanker drivers for their perseverance during the awful spate of bad weather.
- He tells her that he almost hopes something bad would happen to her so that he could save her at any cost.
- Local fishermen are counting the cost of bad weather but, hopefully, can return to work early this week.
- I don't want to do anything today and if the weather's bad, I'll say what an awful day.
- The forecast for the rest of the week looks pretty grim and the bad weather looks like staying with us.
- Even the TV had the grace to allow a bad weather news day to take precedence.
- Quake victims grab what they can in aid, while bad weather slows down the relief.
- I was hoping it was a bad dream or at best a hallucination from a midnight toilet break.
- And my father was not to accept excuses about the strokes of bad luck or the bad weather.
- Pacifism is absolutely not about shutting your eyes and hoping all the bad things will go away.
- I still wake up and look over the bed and hope it's a bad dream and he'll be lying there next to me.
- Over the last two years, the news has been uniformly bad, with every club in the SPL forced to downturn its finances.
- The good news (or bad, depending on how you look at it) is that I'm not the only one who feels this way.
- In the days before the wireless, he was trained to bear news of imminent bad weather from island to island.
- I went out to the deck, hoping even with the bad weather that I could train a bit.
- But the news from Ireland was bad: trustworthy tenants were thin on the ground.
- I was determined to ride out the bad times in hope that the good times were still to come.
- Sitting in his Hong Kong office, he reports that there is good news and bad.
- Unfortunately, we had a lot of bad weather recently and an extraordinary amount of games were called off.
- I feel I'm on a roller-coaster at the moment - first good news then bad as things go right and then oh so wrong.
Synonyms unpleasant, disagreeable, unwelcome, unfortunate, unfavourable, unlucky, adverse, nasty - 2.1 (of something causing pain, danger, or other unwelcome consequences) severe or serious.
Example sentencesExamples - The first seemed more likely, and all the muscles in my body tensed for a bad blow.
- It wasn't a bad wound, just painful, and he would need to rest for several more days.
- Beijing was bidding to bring the world's finest athletes to a city with very bad air pollution.
- Migraines can cause very bad pain that can get in the way of your normal routine.
- At 12.47 a call is received from a patient recently discharged from hospital after a hip operation and now in very bad pain.
- The dumbest thing is that the pain isn't bad enough to make me feel like I should stay home.
- As for pollution, when you sit in traffic in Lancaster with all the heavy goods vehicles the pollution is very bad.
- He visited his doctor who sent him home and when he phoned later that afternoon his chest pains were still bad so an ambulance was called.
- You know I think there are really bad problems with pollution in Johannesburg.
- The best way to describe the pain in my hands and feet is during the morning, it is like a bad toothache.
- The wagon overturned and Clyde took a bad spill, injuring one of his legs.
- I had chests pains, a very bad headache and my eyes were sore and bloodshot.
- The pain was so bad that you told me that you were going to go to the hospital.
- I still have a bad cough as my body rids itself of sickness, but my head feels good.
- The water was a bit soapy and although she never got pregnant, she had some really bad aches and pains for weeks after that.
- Anyone who has ever suffered a bad toothache or a broken tooth, will know that emergency treatment is a must.
- My vision is affected and the pain is so bad that I can't do anything until it goes away.
- The former factory worker has now given up work because the pain is so bad that sometimes she cannot walk.
- Light pollution is so bad that many people in this country can no longer see the stars, research showed yesterday.
- Imagine having air forced into your lungs when you have a bad chest infection?
Synonyms severe, serious, grave, critical, grievous, acute, dreadful, terrible, awful, ghastly, dire, grim, frightful, shocking - 2.2 Unfavorable; adverse.
Example sentencesExamples - We find it hilarious whenever we get bad reviews because it has absolute zero effect on our sales.
- He was sick, the production had all sorts of problems and the result was his first really bad reviews.
- I've come across a lot of bad reviews and people who didn't like it though, and I'm kind of lost as to why.
- Even bad reviews and previews usually have a nice sentence or two about the game.
- A good or bad review by a fashion writer or food critic for example can make or break a designer or restaurant.
- A musician once said to me if you don't get any bad reviews you're not doing your job.
- I've only seen one bad review and that was from some mug that clearly hadn't even played it.
- And that, my friends, just when I thought it would never end, is the last of the ten bad movie reviews.
- The worst thing is when your mother calls you on the phone to read you your bad reviews out loud.
- He had the disgruntled air of a writer whinging over a bad review.
- There are some really bad reviews of it, but I would kind of like to take a look at it nonetheless.
- What if I hate it and have to write a bad review about their friend's band?
- Seen from that point of view, it is evident that even a bad review is better than none at all.
- You have a tendency to believe the reviews that are good and trash the reviews that are bad.
- If they didn't spin, they'd suffer bad press and PR disasters by the day.
- Normally, if you see a bad review on a Christmas movie its on some real syrupy, schmaltzy one.
- It has been a sorry period for Swindon's schools, and the reasons behind the town's bad marks are difficult to boil down.
- What about the kids who because of zoning have to go to a school that has a bad Education Review Office report?
- It's not simply a bad review from the point of view of its subject - it's a bad review from every angle.
- I used to think this was a form of compensation, a kind of insurance policy for a bad grade or a poor paper.
- 2.3bad for Having a harmful effect on.
soap was bad for his face Example sentencesExamples - If that does not happen, it will be bad for him, worse still for Britain, and even worse for the world.
- We are all told that to eat a healthy diet we need to cut down on sweets and sweet foods, however not all sweets are bad for you.
- But it is possible that you dislike a thing which is good for you, and like a thing which is bad for you.
- That said, stories like this are bad for the sport, and that affects all of us.
- Whether it is good for you or not, I would contend that all food can be good for you or it can be bad for you.
- It is essentially a conceptual war, confusing for pundits and bad for television.
- So let's not get fooled by our astrologer pals who claim one number or another is bad for us.
- Some flower beds and tubs have been planted up but the weather has been to bad for painting.
- Christmas shopping could be bad for your health, a top physiotherapist has warned.
- Is spending too much time online really bad for you because you miss out on personal interaction?
- But the fact that being a man is bad for you may also have much to do with men's attitude to health.
- I doubt anything much can be done to stop the recession and this will be bad for IT spending.
- To be fair, not all of the legislation brought in by the Scottish Parliament is bad for business.
- It's about a very contemporary cultural superstition that love is actually bad for you.
- In plain English, smoking looks bad, smells bad, and is just downright bad for you.
- Marriage as it stands is good for children, good for husbands and bad for wives.
- If I did not know better, I would have to say that running is bad for you, with both of us seriously ill.
- It was bad for Sri Lanka, but not catastrophic if they can win at least one more game.
- The doctors do not say that all exercise is bad for you: they even recommend a little walking.
- I know it's bad for me, that I should be doing stuff, any stuff just so long as I keep active.
Synonyms harmful, damaging, detrimental, undesirable, injurious, hurtful, inimical, dangerous, destructive, ruinous, deleterious
3Failing to conform to standards of moral virtue or acceptable conduct. Example sentencesExamples - Here she tells her about her real self and why she likes being bad on screen
- Teachers in Hull will be quizzed about their pupils' bad behaviour in a survey into classroom violence.
- Now they are calling for a public meeting with police to try and tackle the issues of bad behaviour before the project gets into full swing.
- What enrages you now is not last night's bad behaviour but a lifetime of bad behaviour and the marriage is over.
- However, the hawks would say that's just giving in to blackmail, rewarding bad behaviour.
- Rather than letting prisoners out early for good behaviour, it might be more sensible to keep them in longer for bad behaviour.
- Young footballers who copy the bad behaviour of their professional heroes are receiving adult-size bans.
- Ben informs us that his good grades are like a licence for bad behaviour.
- Teachers also noticed a reduction in criminal and bad behaviour.
- Three prison officers gave evidence yesterday about the penalties for reporting bad behaviour by colleagues.
- Despite its official backing the book pulls no punches and includes tales of the singer's bullying and bad behaviour.
- This New York circus duo have been a hit off-Broadway with their brand of vaudeville, kitsch and bad behaviour.
- With the bad attitude comes the bad behaviour the tabloids love.
- The general level of ignorance on what is good or bad behaviour is compounded by the idealisation of childhood.
- But bad behaviour is on the increase since the town council replaced the benches last month, they said.
- She wins her over with headstrong antics, while she goes about being a bad little rich girl.
- We turn our backs on the fact that bad behavior sells seats and bad behavior begets more of the same.
- It shouldn't be just up to the police to deal with bad behaviour.
- Not all young people are bad, but there seems to be a growing number of them with a lack of respect for anything or anyone.
- What happens when one's bad behaviour is considered as usual and is no longer condemned or even commented on?
Synonyms wicked, sinful, immoral, evil, morally wrong, corrupt, base, black-hearted, reprobate, depraved, degenerate, dissolute, amoral - 3.1 (of language) using words generally considered offensive; vulgar.
4(of a part of the body) injured, diseased, or painful. Example sentencesExamples - I took a wobbly step on my bad ankle, and instantly, unbearable pain shot up my leg, causing me to fall to my knees.
- He hit me in my bad shoulder, the one that got shot, so I hit the ground, and pretended it hurt horribly.
- Being a very active person who resented my bad back and all the restrictions, I was not pleased to be encouraged to lie flat each afternoon.
- I pressed the pedal of Josh's bed with my bad foot and it slowly began to rise.
- After all, our national inheritance also includes heart disease, damp and bad teeth.
- Last night my parents told me to consider not dancing anymore because my bad knee has kept me out more or less for the last few months.
- I was a little tipsy from the beers I had been drinking and the two vicodin I had eaten for my bad back.
- She grabbed my bad arm and my shoulder then popped in back into its socket.
- Carefully I slip out from under the covers and I gingerly try putting weight on my bad leg.
- After struggling to get it over my bad arm I succeeded and headed downstairs.
- I used my good leg to pull myself up and my bad leg to steady myself on.
- Her son joined another queue to have his bad back checked and would be there for hours, so we took her to our hotel to rest.
- I attempted to sit up on my bad arm but quickly realized that wasn't possible.
- My father ignored her and he grabbed me by my bad arm and pulled me towards my mother, who was still lying on the floor.
- I was taking Baja out for a bathroom run when he yanked me and I slipped on an ice patch, twisting my bad knee.
- My chair is SO uncomfortable, and doesn't support my bad back at all.
- It was hot still, perhaps even hotter, and some daft woman crashed into my bad leg with her trolley, so my even temper was becoming strained.
Synonyms injured, wounded, diseased - 4.1as complement (of a person) unwell.
I tried medication but felt even worse the next morning Example sentencesExamples - I waited only an hour in the emergency room, and by now, I was feeling pretty bad.
- Would allergic kids let us know if they felt bad or accidentally contacted something?
- I had started feeling pretty ill by this point, and Scott had been feeling pretty bad since after the hike.
- Tell her how bad your acne makes you feel and ask if she'll set up a dermatologist's visit for you.
- I get home, still feeling pretty bad, take a look at my helmet and discover that the crash cracked it in 3 places.
- Those days I just wanna kick the dirt or maybe just sit there and think about how bad I feel.
- Pain is your body's way of telling you to stop, and ignoring it will not only make you feel bad but probably injure you into the bargain.
- Even if you don't feel that bad, meningitis is a quick moving disease so it's better to be safe than sorry.
Synonyms ill, unwell, sick, not well, not very well, ailing, poorly, sickly, peaky, afflicted, indisposed, infirm, liverish
5(of food) decayed; putrid. everything in the fridge went bad Example sentencesExamples - The next morning, things got worse as half of our food went bad.
- The stray dogs may be hungrier, but I don't think they ever ate that bad rice.
- Many feared that if the food went bad and somebody became ill that they would be liable and could be sued.
- You can't get much sleep; and the kids are throwing up because the food is bad.
- Second, if fruit went bad during shipment, the wrappers offered some way of containing the spoilage.
Synonyms rotten, off, decayed, decomposed, decomposing, putrid, putrefied, putrescent, mouldy, mouldering - 5.1 (of the atmosphere) polluted; unhealthy.
Example sentencesExamples - This, in conjunction with bad water, leads to the wildfire spread of many infectious diseases and greatly increases diarrhea among children.
- If economic growth continues, there are bound to be more cars spewing bad air.
- If you've been watering your plant with bad water for several months, and the plant is clearly declining, things are bad.
- Yet he was right behind Siri and was getting bad air from her sail, so he tacked out on port to get clear air.
- Does the arachnid feel a difference in the air between a bad ozone day and a good one?
- Now, the fire is still going on and the air is still bad, so I had a serious breathing problem.
- Soon a fan the size of a card table is pulling the bad air out the street door.
- The air was still pretty bad, but the tunnel was larger and much less foreboding.
- This time I went quickly through surfacing into a spacious airbell, alert for signs of bad air.
- There must be a magic line down the middle of the street that divides the good air from the bad air.
- Unless you live in an area with bad water (like... a swamp or toxic waste dump) I can't imagine using anything but tap water.
6as complement Regretful, guilty, or ashamed about something. she feels bad about ending their engagement I feel bad that our business is benefiting from something so horrible Example sentencesExamples - I don't feel bad about it for myself, but I feel bad for the effect it had on Rafael.
- It made me feel real bad for him, and for the way I and others were feeling towards him.
- I feel so bad for those who have missing family members because I was in their shoes just a sort time ago.
- Rannie came by to check on me, but I was feeling so bad I hardly said anything to him.
- Of the rest of us, only one was wearing a suit, though, so I didn't feel too bad.
- Did he feel bad sending our boys into battle without adequate body armour?
- I felt so bad, so ashamed of the person I am today, so worthless, so empty, so useless.
- Luckily I hated the thing so I don't feel too bad about getting a new one.
- What happened afterwards was a terrible blow, and I felt bad for all the other players.
- She had been a bitch to Michelle and she felt bad about it after Hope had put it in the light.
- It seems the front door was actually unlocked, so the girls felt bad about me falling for naught.
- I feel slightly bad, but hope you guessed correctly which option I would go for.
- He says dentists feel bad about the situation but he insists their hands are tied.
Synonyms guilty, conscience-stricken, remorseful, guilt-ridden, ashamed, chastened, contrite, sorry, full of regret, regretful, repentant, penitent, shamefaced, self-reproachful, apologetic 7Worthless; not valid. Example sentencesExamples - However bad or good these checks are depends on the publication, but they are there.
- They said my Child was clean but because there were bad checks written there was going to be a trial.
- One of my earlier cases was investigating a bad cheque that had been passed at a local merchant.
- He relies on the telephone and on an eye trained by expensive experience to ferret out bad checks.
- The geeks will not inherit the earth: They spend too much time watching movies and checking for bad physics.
- He suffered money problems and was arrested for passing a bad cheque and other financial charges.
- Passing a bad check is a felony.
- The bank has been dogged by bad real estate loans since it was formed by the merger of two Munich-based banks in 1998.
- After a couple of traffic offense cases and a few bad check writers were dealt with, he married us.
- He financed his activities by cashing millions of dollars in bad checks.
- He had already suffered the loss when he received the bad cheque from her.
- They may steal, write bad checks or commit illegal activities to finance their habit.
8North American informal Good; excellent. they want the baddest, best-looking Corvette there is Example sentencesExamples - ‘It was the baddest car I'd ever seen and I promised myself right then that one day I'd have one just like it.’
- She knew she was badder than these wannabe hoodlums.
- He was amusing, and he made me feel as if I was the baddest one in the place.
Synonyms excellent, wonderful, marvellous, magnificent, superb, splendid, glorious, sublime, lovely, delightful, first-class, first-rate, outstanding
adverbbadbæd North American informal Badly. Example sentencesExamples - I fancy her real bad!
- No matter how bad I threw the ball, it was still going to knock down at least one pin.
- I have a problem using your templates, and I want them real bad.
- Papa wanted to strap on one of those gliders and run off that hill so bad he could taste it.
- I must have hurt her real bad without realising it.
- It would be disrespectful of me to talk bad of her on a forum that everybody can read.
- I tell you, if we start to win again, I want to beat them real bad this time.
Usage Confusion in the use of bad versus badly usually has to do with verbs called copulas, such as feel or seem. Thus, standard usage calls for I feel bad, not I feel badly. As a precise speaker or writer would explain, I feel badly means ‘I do not have a good sense of touch.’ See also good Phrases Into an even worse state. the country's going from bad to worse Example sentencesExamples - This is one of those days, however, that just keeps going from bad to worse, as Brandon and his passengers are soon to discover.
- Sensing the situation moving from bad to worse, the reporter sought help from a Boston police officer on duty nearby.
- Therefore it will reduce the already insufficient number of road lanes, and hence the situation will go from bad to worse.
- But with the eradication of that status, the financial position of the State had gone from bad to worse.
- She was talking about when things went from bad to worse, and how to document that moment.
- Back in the party things were going from bad to worse.
- The endowment mortgage crisis just goes from bad to worse.
- He was switched to left back - his natural position - at the beginning of the current season and things have gone from bad to worse.
- The week has gone from bad to worse for the Wexford County Board.
- This has only turned things from bad to worse because the buses have to now ply on a narrow road before reaching the road connecting Town Hall.
Sammy shivered. He was in a bad way the fleet was in a bad way, mainly due to a shortage of spares Example sentencesExamples - His teeth were too long, his hooves in a bad way and he had septicaemia, a disease caused by toxic micro-organisms in the blood.
- A nearby householder, who did not want to be named, said: ‘He's in a bad way and is going to need plastic surgery.’
- His arms were in a bad way - there were no bandages on him at that stage.
- He has been standing up on his own, which is a good sign, and he is eating, but his nostrils and throat are still in a bad way.
- She looked in a bad way, but there was very little anybody could do.
- He was in a bad way, so very weak, only the occasional half-hearted flap of his wings.
- He was in a bad way so I took him home to nurse him and planned to bring him back when he was independent at three months old.
- I couldn't see her face when they pulled her out, but she looked in a bad way.
- They kept stopping for breaks and water and the girl was in a bad way.
- He looked in a bad way and I think they took him off at Singapore.
Synonyms unwell, sick, not well, not very well, ailing, poorly, sickly, peaky, afflicted, indisposed, infirm, liverish
informal Used to acknowledge responsibility for a mistake. Sorry about the confusion. It's my bad Example sentencesExamples - I didn't flip the shirt over to see that there is in fact an Ivory-billed Woodpecker on the back, my bad.
- Just kidding; it didn't take long at all - sorry for the linguistic impasse, my bad.
- I hate when people say ‘my bad’ it's so annoying, just say ‘sorry’ for god's sake.
- Sorry, it's my bad and my poor English.
- I'm sorry, it's my bad.
she discovered he wasn't so bad after all Example sentencesExamples - That's not so bad for a first show, but we hoped for bigger walkup.
- I left the chillies out from the original recipe and the result was a little uninspiring, but not bad for a first attempt.
- I hope you had better weather for them than the kind we are having now-a-days, but it is not so bad here considering it is winter.
- It is not so bad if I space out my work, family and other commitments.
- The replacement sounds I have are not bad; in fact, they are good in their own right.
- But after a few trips to the toilet and some painkillers it's not so bad.
- He's actually not bad… which reminds me, I take it you've seen this excellent ad now.
- They offer a good range of vegetarian food, the prices are not bad, and they give lovely big portions.
- There's still a mad scramble the night before, but it's not so bad.
- This was not so bad as the grill was on on quite low.
Synonyms all right, quite good, good, adequate, acceptable, good enough, reasonable, fair, decent, average, tolerable, passable, middling, moderate, sufficiently good, fine
I hate to see you going to the bad Example sentencesExamples - The husband, left with a ‘keen three-year-old baby’, went to the bad, took to opium, and died.
- In many ways, Peter's is the classic story of a youngster who turned to the bad because he could not see any way forward.
- ‘I think I'd go to the bad very quickly,’ he says gravely.
- The third key process I wish to identify is chiefly to the bad.
- It may be stretching the point, but I was reminded of the severed heads adorning the house of another exemplar of humanity gone to the bad.
- Then came the terrible film in which we were expected to believe that she was a well brought up English gal gone to the bad.
- The Britain of this film is a vision of modernity gone to the bad.
- He is, to put it a bit too flippantly, a snail geneticist gone to the bad.
- 1.1In deficit.
Example sentencesExamples - Defending their European Cup Winners' Cup, Ferguson's side emerged at Pittodrie two goals to the bad against Dosza of Hungary.
- At half-time, as they trudged off three goals to the bad, it looked like both a hiding and nothing.
- With one minute of normal time to elapse, Athlone were a goal to the bad.
- For all Livingston's openings they were two to the bad after the hour mark.
- Now he shows up unannounced with his passive-aggressive Chinese flute at The Bride's wedding rehearsal, like Caine gone to the bad.
- Wessels, the South African, who had began the day at six under finished four shots to the bad.
- As for a final round that he will start five shots to the bad, Monty was cautiously optimistic.
- Against a Sale side lacking two noted match-winners in Robinson and Hodgson, Glasgow were soon eight points to the bad.
- But when they finished the first half two points to the bad, after playing with the aid of a significant breeze, they were always unlikely to prevail.
informal Used to indicate that something is regrettable but is now beyond retrieval. too bad, but that's the way it is Example sentencesExamples - The fact is there is no queue but we still insist they are jumping one so that's just too bad.
- Thicks lips are not supposed to be considered to be an aesthetic thing, so too bad.
- It's too bad, but this is still a country where those who speak the truth are targeted.
- Now when that means you lose a little money on the stock market or whatever, that's too bad.
- The family photo isn't there, which is too bad because they picked a pretty good one.
- In a way it's too bad, but if he becomes a casualty, it will be his own fault.
- It would be too bad if professional boxing had to be stopped because there is a lot of good talent here.
- It's called socialism, and if the rich squeal like pigs in a poke then too bad.
- Some guests rarely venture out, which is too bad, since they miss the true magic of Madeira.
- It's too bad that most of his monologues were so focused on current events because it made them hard to watch now.
Origin Middle English: perhaps from Old English bǣddel ‘hermaphrodite, womanish man’. |