(superl.) Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good; as, a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad health; bad crop; bad news.
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Example Sentences:
(1) City badly missed Yaya Touré, on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations, and have not won a league match since last April when he has been missing.
(2) For viewers in the US, you get the worst possible in-game managerial interview in Mike Matheny, one that's so bad, it's actually great!
(3) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
(4) In London, diesel emissions are now so bad that on several days earlier this summer, children, older people and vulnerable adults were warned not to venture outside .
(5) Following mass disasters and individual deaths, dentists with special training and experience in forensic odontology are frequently called upon to assist in the identification of badly mutilated or decomposed bodies.
(6) "Seller reports are key to identifying bad buyers and ridding them from our marketplace," says eBay.
(7) Botswana, Kenya, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have also been badly hit.
(8) We are better off in.” Out campaigners have claimed that the NHS could be badly hit by a decision to stay in the EU.
(9) However, the City focused on the improvement in the fortunes of its Irish business, Ulster bank, and its new mini bad bank which led to a 1.8% rise in the shares to 368p.
(10) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(11) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
(12) On a weekend that sees the country celebrate 50 years of independence it is certain that despite all things – good and bad – that have taken place in 2013, the next 50 years will be transformed by personal technology, concerned citizens and the media.
(13) Meanwhile the Brooklyn Nets, who have been dealing with nothing but bad news since the start of the regular season, will be without Paul Pierce for 2-4 weeks, also due to a right hand fracture.
(14) It's bad enough that they're so thin,” said Kilbourne.
(15) "I am in a bad situation, psychologically so bad and confused," one father said, surrounded by his three other young sons.
(16) Later, Lucas, also a former party leader, strongly defended Bennett, saying it was a “bad day for Natalie” but there was also “kind of a gloating tone that strikes one as having something to do with her being a woman in there too”.
(17) Another five years of Tory rule with all the terrible consequences that will have is bad enough.
(18) We suggest that sick districts can be affirmed on the basis of the total amount of fluoride intake, the prevalence rates of dental fluorosis, bad incomplete teeth, milk-teeth and the mean output of urinary fluoride between 8 and 15 years of age.
(19) Two hundred forty-six fetuses had at least one abnormal biophysical profile variable with the risk of bad outcome, for a single abnormal variable, ranging from 8% (body movements) to 100% (tone) and increasing from 14% (any variable abnormal) to 63% (all variables abnormal).
(20) This is bad constitutional reform, but it is a reform anyway.
Baddie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) So strong is this image of Peck that his few honourable attempts at comedy, and his less successful portrayals of the baddie, are often forgotten.
(2) Call centre workers aren't cartoon baddies – it's rare that they've chosen to do this job.
(3) It was probably the seminal boxing match of all time, the dramatic unities perfectly in place: perceived goodie v baddie, impossible odds, totally unforeseen outcome.
(4) 12.44am BST Shadow finance minister Andrew Robb claims both Barack Obama and David Cameron have also used the word "baddies".
(5) There was, though, some indignation when it emerged both records had links to Simon Cowell , the entertainment industry's favourite pantomime baddy.
(6) With our politics increasingly polarised , it saddens me to see my students being initiated – deliberately or not – into an essentially Manichaean view of politics, with a checklist of “goodies” (leftists, trade unions, Corbyn) and “baddies” (Tories, Brexiteers, anyone who uses the phrase British values without irony).
(7) All this and Celia Imrie still comes close to stealing the show as a brilliant, sharp baddie.
(8) Photograph: Alan Markfield If Bruce isn't really Looper's baddie, it's only because black-and-white morality doesn't have a place in Johnson's world.
(9) But cackling local baddie Lawrence Murphy (Jack Palance) turns up to ruin their fun.
(10) Nor is there much sign of Thanos, the studio's go-to background baddie, though his minion Nebula turns up in the form of Doctor Who's shaven-headed Karen Gillan.
(11) On the rare occasions when you are depicted, it’s frequently as a disability stereotype – in a medical setting (toy hospital set), as an evil baddie (Captain Hook) or associated with charity (BBC’s Children in Need).
(12) Finland approves wolf hunt in trial cull Read more Thanks to people finally shrugging off the fairytale baddies that teach us to fear this carnivore, and thanks to protection from an EU directive on habitats, wolf numbers – along with those of lynx and brown bears – have been slowly recovering in Europe .
(13) As the tagline – "May the best man live" – suggests, it's basically the same old flick with the same old schtick: the Stath tops baddies, boffs toffs (he's a one-man manifesto for geezer supremacy), and cops off with a blondie.
(14) Bit too much like what the baddies on the other side would do, don’t you think?
(15) Dermot O'Leary is standing inside an illuminated ring of X Factor contestants, like he's one of the baddies from Superman II and he's about to be fired into space for his crimes.
(16) Many people will miss being the baddies, suggests Broder.
(17) To use his own language, a more accurate description would be: "It's not goodies versus baddies, it's a mixture of goodies and baddies versus baddies."
(18) We see some Somali baddies at the beginning disrupting a delivery of aid to Mogadishu - we are told they are doing it on General Aidid's orders and therefore the goodies (America) plan to kill General Aidid.
(19) Just because they're not the most imaginative of Whovian baddies.
(20) "Tinker Tailor rubbish, all moody non-dialogue and twisty plot that you desperately follow and then the denouement is cos the baddies are idiots and say something stupid - what's the point of the clever twisty plot when the goodies don't have to unravel it?"