What's the difference between bad and rubbish?

Bad


Definition:

  • (imp.) Bade.
  • (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.
  • () of Bid

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.

Rubbish


Definition:

  • (n.) Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When my form teacher said I’d worked well in every subject except geography, I made her change the bit that said I’d not tried to say, instead, that I was rubbish at it.
  • (2) His report was widely rubbished at the time for lack of supporting evidence, and the addition of Osborne's sweeteners (or nudges, perhaps?)
  • (3) Therefore this gesture is actually a tribute to the country - they are saying, 'you are rubbish but our rubbish is as good as everyone else's best'.
  • (4) The problem, said Dr Kinsey, was that Shakespeare's "sceptred isle ... set in a silver sea" is now set in a sea of rubbish.
  • (5) Protesters set fire to rubbish bins and tyres, creating pillars of black smoke among the apartment blocks and office buildings in central Tehran.
  • (6) Water is no longer chlorinated, rubbish isn't collected anymore.
  • (7) Eaton Square is one of the poshest addresses in London – the rubbish left outside the six-storey houses include empty Pol Roger bottles; one or two buildings have flags (not British) or blue plaques detailing how the likes of Neville Chamberlain once lived there.
  • (8) I don’t even think about [Isis] – I look at the news and I’m like OK they’re just talking rubbish, and I turn it off.
  • (9) And, nearly as famously, he actually threw his only draft of it away at one point, until his wife convinced him to rescue it from the rubbish.
  • (10) "The only musical tradition then was heavy metal, rubbish cover bands and crooners like Tony Christie."
  • (11) W hat do you think happens to the rubbish when you throw it out into the street?” asks the Mighty Boosh ’s great realist Howard Moon.
  • (12) Around 200,000 still live in flimsy shelters on rubbish-strewn wastelands.
  • (13) But still, you know that when Manchester United is coming, we have to pay much more than another club, so that’s also an analysis, and it is not rubbish what I am saying.” Gill was also critical of the playing style.
  • (14) The march in the capital came in direct response to the government’s announcement on Friday that its investigation has established that dozens of young people were massacred in a rubbish dump outside the town of Cocula, that borders Iguala.
  • (15) Lauren Eyles, MCS Beachwatch officer, said: "Despite last summer being seen as a washout by many with heavy rain in many places, it appears those people that did visit our beaches left behind a lot of personal litter – sweet wrappers, ice cream wrappers and plastic drinks bottles failed to find their way into rubbish bins and ended up being dropped and left behind.
  • (16) To examine how mimicry was influenced by a person's power and the status of those around them, Carr asked 55 volunteers to watch videos of high-status people (such as a doctor or business leader) or low-status people (a worker in a fast food restaurant, say, or a rubbish collector) either being happy or angry.
  • (17) On 7 November Murillo announced that the authorities had collected badly burned human bone fragments from a rubbish tip outside of a neighbouring town called Cocula.
  • (18) I have to read so much rubbish here that I'm impressed with any missive that shows even a modicum of intelligence.
  • (19) We are constantly faced with others forcing their rubbish on us.
  • (20) They would take a rubbish bag but they would still leave stuff behind," said Tshering Tenzing Sherpa, an official of the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee, the NGO charged with overseeing the Everest cleanup.