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black eye

noun as in bad reputation

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One recipient - who described her tumour as like a tennis ball - said she was out of hospital in just two days with nothing but a black eye.

From BBC

Gay’s allegiance to Shah was so blind, she even refused to say how she’d ended up with a black eye after a night of partying in San Diego.

“This is another black eye,” Dan Bubb, a professor of history with a focus on aviation at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said of the lawsuits.

Weaver called the investigation a “black eye” on the nearly 50-year-old nonprofit, which serves about 2 million people.

She probably could have done without the black eye she got in the first quarter.

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

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