(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.
Jonah
Definition:
(n.) The Hebrew prophet, who was cast overboard as one who endangered the ship; hence, any person whose presence is unpropitious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jonah RNA encodes a 28-kDa translation product or products for which we consider a possible function.
(2) And special education will also get hurt, to the tune of $978mn according to Jonah Edelman, the CEO of Stand for Children.
(3) In the third-instar larva the Jonah genes are abundantly expressed as transcripts of a single size class, located exclusively in the midgut.
(4) Her feature film debut was auspicious and striking – she played the sassy buddy of Jonah Hill in Superbad – and rapidly followed it with roles in The Rocker and The House Bunny .
(5) Last July, it destroyed the tomb of the prophet Jonah in Mosul .
(6) As recently as in August, 39-year-old founder Jonah Peretti sent a memo to staff, ecstatic about a then traffic record of 85 million users .
(7) They have grown up as the sons of Jonah and it’s a daunting task trying to explain to them what I achieved.
(8) Aziz Ansari cuts down comedians Seth Rogan, Jonah Hill, Nick Kroll, Jeffrey Ross and Andy Samberg at the Comedy Central roast of James Franco.
(9) Islamic State (Isis) militants have blown up a revered Muslim shrine traditionally said to be the burial place of the prophet Jonah in Mosul, residents of the city said.
(10) The Jonah genes were initially defined by homology to a reference cDNA clone.
(11) 🎉😂💘🎉😂💘🎉😂@raisingmalawi.org A photo posted by Madonna (@madonna) on Nov 27, 2016 at 9:34am PST Other lots up for auction include a private game of poker with actors Edward Norton and Jonah Hill, a week in Leonardo DiCaprio’s Palm Springs home, a private dinner performance by the magician David Blaine, and artworks by Ai Weiwei, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Julian Schnabel , Marilyn Minter and Damien Hirst.
(12) Borrowing from Rousseau's treatise Emile, or On Education – and inspired by the accessibility of Malcolm Gladwell and Jonah Lehrer – he decided to write up his research as a novel, featuring an imaginary couple called Harold and Erica, who are guided through their lives by an omniscient and somewhat smug narrator.
(13) 3.33pm BST LSE student Jonah Werth sends us his take on Clearing.
(14) "I joined the London Irish academy too late," says Okoye, who as a schoolboy was nicknamed Jonah Lomu.
(15) Comedians I know, like Will Ferrell, Jonah Hill, Jean Dujardin , are some of the best human observers.
(16) Jonah Sachs, co-founder and CEO of Free Range, said that beneath the surface of the decision to leave the conservative group might be a concern over the economics of tackling climate change.
(17) Evidence that different Jonah genes are under different control with respect to both spatial and temporal patterns of expression has been provided.
(18) Elsewhere: Jon Bernthal gets more fun to watch in every new thing he shows up in; this movie might make you want to murder Jonah Hill; and Margot Robbie in the nude, oiled up, golden and shaven, looks scarily like an Oscar statuette.
(19) However, the structural heterogeneity within this gene family is so large that Jonah genes that fail to hybridize to the reference cDNA, yet hybridize to other members of the family that do hybridize to that cDNA have been subsequently identified.
(20) Returning to Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Fox used opening-weekend screenings to show trailers for The Sitter, in which Jonah Hill, the Superbad star and sidekick to Russell Brand in the truly horrendous Get Him to the Greek , plays a terrible babysitter.