bum rap
Example Sentences
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“My two-engine plane was out at Burbank, waiting, so that if I got a bum rap, I’d get out there, hop in, and leave America and my screen career forever.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
But there is a level on which the president is getting a bum rap.
From Fox News ● Jun. 2, 2020
In a word, no — that is a bum rap, in noir-speak.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2018
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
