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bad

adjective as in disobedient or mischievous

adjective as in of food, decayed or rotten

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adjective as in severe, serious

adjective as in sick

adjective as in (informal) impressively tough or skillful

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Alabama’s landmark Montgomery Bus Boycott forced a bus company to see that segregation was bad for business.

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"The violence was getting worse, more frequent and harsh," he said.

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The global head of football only officially arrived in July but allegedly fell out with Nuno and, despite a successful transfer window, things have taken a turn for the worse ever since.

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One misstep made a donor question whether operations inside Jarmond’s athletic department were even worse than they appeared on a surface level.

The flying cars of “The Jetsons,” a futuristic animated sitcom that enchanted television audiences in the early 1960s, are “not a bad analogy,” Cox said.

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

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