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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

Finally, even in the worst-case scenario, in which a child does contract Covid-19, the outcomes of the disease are less severe in younger people than among older adults.

From Vox

To be sure, people basically gambling with money they would be devastated to lose is bad.

From Vox

In doing so, the app aims to bring more transparency to how social networks moderate hate speech by showing those who report it what is and isn’t deemed bad enough to be removed.

From Digiday

What investors do appear to have is conviction that earnings for the second quarter likely won’t be as bad as expected.

From Fortune

Sometimes, much as we hate to admit it, a bad race is simply a bad race.

We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.

I gotta say—I think this past year was pretty bad for music.

Ass-kicking, bad guy-killing Carter is just a future spinster.

They all immediately dashed out to their car to catch the bad guys.

Terrorism is bad news anywhere, but especially rough on Odessa, where the city motto seems to be “make love, not war.”

The "bad form" of telling a lie to the head-master is a later illustration of the same thing.

The men arrived in very bad condition, and many of them blinded with the salt water which had dashed into their eyes.

Their sin began on Holy Thursday, with so little secrecy and so bad an example, that the affair was beginning to leak out.

Conditions in the new country had gone from bad to worse, and if the season should experience another drought, the worst was come.

If any one has lost his temper, as well as his money, he takes good care not to show it; to do so here would be indeed bad form.

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What are other ways to say bad?

When describing things that are lacking in moral qualities or are actually vicious and reprehensible, bad is the broadest and simplest term: a bad man; bad habits. Evil applies to that which violates or leads to the violation of moral law: evil practices. Ill now appears mainly in certain fixed expressions, with a milder implication than that in evil: ill will; ill-natured. Wicked implies willful and determined doing of what is very wrong: a wicked plan.

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

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