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have a bad name



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Foreign interventions have a bad name, and a bad history here.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2022

But it can’t be all gloom: misery memoirs have a bad name.

From The Guardian • Dec. 14, 2019

You feel really guilty, and you don’t want them to have a bad name.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2019

Politicians have a bad name: a lot of fathers would not want their daughters to marry one, and candidates' wives openly express the wish that their husbands were in some other line of work.

From Time Magazine Archive

They have a bad name in these waters.

From In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant by Verne, Jules




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