bum rap
Example Sentences
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Nation building got a bum rap during the 1990s as U.S. troops deployed to Somalia, Haiti and the Balkans.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2021
But there is a level on which the president is getting a bum rap.
From Fox News ● Jun. 2, 2020
An amnesiac climbs out of a car wreck and faces an unhappy wife, a rotten cousin and a bum rap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2020
Picasso parried by mocking the apparent repetitiveness of the gaunt figures that had become the exclusive focus of Giacometti’s sculpture during his war years in Switzerland—a bum rap, as this show proves.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 11, 2018
The class laughed along with him, but I always thought cliches got a bum rap.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
