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View definitions for bad move

bad move

noun as in misstep

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Before winning an Emmy for his return to "The Daily Show," Stewart touched upon why dipping out would be a bad move in this political climate, saying, “Well, my feeling is this election will never end. So why would I? How could I leave? I won’t be allowed to leave until the election, until we’re all ground to some sort of calcified nubs. … We’re looking forward to it being awful.”

From Salon

“That’s a bad move, baseball-wise, karma-wise, baseball-gods-wise,” Schumaker said of intentionally walking Ohtani.

Now, I am neither a political strategist nor a political historian, but I think I know enough to say that a 21st-century replay of Jimmy Carter’s infamous so-called malaise speech would be a bad move.

That said, telling voters to buck up and realize how good they have it would also be a bad move.

And former BBC Journalist Robert Rea wrote: "This strikes me as a very bad move. Why would you want to make it harder to watch your programmes?"

From BBC

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

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