set a bad example

But the book was less popular with some adults, who felt like Pippi set a bad example.

“I wish Lloyd Austin a fast cancer recovery, but he set a bad example for Black men,” read the headline of an opinion essay in the Kansas City Star.

The young woman was heartbroken, concluding that the school didn’t want the public to see her with a protruding belly, as she would set a bad example for other students.

Others, she said, set a bad example for the students looking up to them.

Along with well-wishers who extend support and cheer them on are detractors who tell them they have set a bad example and that they should get married to men.