bad money
Example Sentences
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“Mindset is so important, and sometimes we end up being very hard on ourselves for making bad money choices. If we don’t forgive ourselves, it can be a barrier to doing better.”
From Seattle Times • Apr. 22, 2024
Michelle Singletary’s Jan. 8 Business column had this grammatically jarring headline: “Here’s seven bad money habits to break in 2023” instead of “Here are 7 bad money habits to break in 2023.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2023
In the end, Calhoun preferred bad money to good, because it better protected the foundations of the slave society that he wanted to defend above all else.
From Slate • Sep. 22, 2021
But a government adviser, U Tin Maung Than, a director of the Myanmar Development Resource Institute, a research organization, says the government does not have the wherewithal to distinguish good from bad money.
From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2015
Edward, as the historian informs us, bought in this bad money at a rate below its value, in order to make a profit; and fined some persons who interfered with his traffic.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry
