bad

Some have already felt that, with sometimes significant losses on a bad bet.

In fact, he said, "it was worse when trying to wash it off".

"If you took public support for granted it would be a very bad day," he told me.

The results looked "startlingly bad" for the SAS, he told the inquiry.

That, he will say, "costs the country money, is bad for our productivity, but most importantly of all -- costs the country opportunity and potential."