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View definitions for bad

bad

adjective as in harmful

adjective as in immoral

adjective as in mischievous

adjective as in decayed

Strongest matches

adjective as in severe

adjective as in sick

Strong match

adjective as in distressing

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Example Sentences

We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.

I gotta say—I think this past year was pretty bad for music.

Ass-kicking, bad guy-killing Carter is just a future spinster.

They all immediately dashed out to their car to catch the bad guys.

Terrorism is bad news anywhere, but especially rough on Odessa, where the city motto seems to be “make love, not war.”

The "bad form" of telling a lie to the head-master is a later illustration of the same thing.

The men arrived in very bad condition, and many of them blinded with the salt water which had dashed into their eyes.

Their sin began on Holy Thursday, with so little secrecy and so bad an example, that the affair was beginning to leak out.

Conditions in the new country had gone from bad to worse, and if the season should experience another drought, the worst was come.

If any one has lost his temper, as well as his money, he takes good care not to show it; to do so here would be indeed bad form.

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On this page you'll find 307 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bad, such as: atrocious, awful, cheap, crummy, dreadful, and lousy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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