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View definitions for bad

bad

adjective as in harmful

adjective as in immoral

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 unpleasant, unfavorable

adjective as in (informal) impressively tough or skillful

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Example Sentences

He called the proposed commission a “bad idea.”

The latter doesn’t sound bad at all, until you remember that Marc Andreessen is one of Trump’s tech-world advisers, and that one of his big things these days is threatening to prosecute government/university/business officials who apparently “coordinated” to “censor” Elon Musk’s X by pulling advertising.

From Slate

But, more importantly, he’s seriously mistaken about how bad things can get.

From Salon

“It will be really bad news for the cause of peace in this region.”

From BBC

Such chaos is bad for democracy, but it does inspire wickedly funny memes, hashtags, sketches and political satire.

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

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