Quotes about "bad"

• Noun: that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; example: "take the bad with the good"

• Adj: having undesirable or negative qualities; examples: "a bad report card", "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression", "a bad little boy", "clothes in bad shape", "a bad cut", "bad luck", "the news was very bad", "the reviews were bad", "the pay is bad", "it was a bad light for reading", "the movie was a bad choice"

• Adj: very intense; examples: "a bad headache", "in a big rage", "had a big (or bad) shock", "a bad earthquake", "a bad storm"

• Adj: feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'); examples: "my throat feels bad", "she felt bad all over", "he was feeling tough after a restless night"

• Adj: (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; examples: "bad meat", "a refrigerator full of spoilt food"

• Adj: feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; examples: "felt regretful over his vanished youth", "regretful over mistakes she had made", "he felt bad about breaking the vase"

• Adj: not capable of being collected; example: "a bad (or uncollectible) debt"

• Adj: below average in quality or performance; examples: "a bad chess player", "a bad recital"

• Adj: nonstandard; example: "so-called bad grammar"

• Adj: not financially safe or secure; examples: "a bad investment", "high risk investments", "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky", "speculative business enterprises"

• Adj: physically unsound or diseased; examples: "has a bad back", "a bad heart", "bad teeth", "an unsound limb", "unsound teeth"

• Adj: capable of harming; examples: "bad habits", "bad air", "smoking is bad for you"

• Adj: characterized by wickedness or immorality; example: "led a very bad life"

• Adj: reproduced fraudulently; examples: "like a bad penny...", "a forged twenty dollar bill"

• Adj: not working properly; examples: "a bad telephone connection", "a defective appliance"

• Adv: with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly'); examples: "the injury hurt badly", "the buildings were badly shaken", "it hurts bad", "we need water bad"

• Adv: very much; strongly; examples: "I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it", "the cables had sagged badly", "they were badly in need of help", "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it"