have a bad name
Example Sentences
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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
"A major reason that revivals have a bad name," says Guys and Dolls producer David, "is that they tend to be star-driven and lacking in production values -- cardboard shows with Robert Goulet."
From Time Magazine Archive
"The houses in the faubourg have a bad name, monseigneur."
From The Regent's Daughter by Dumas père, Alexandre
