bad money
Example Sentences
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It’s not because Gen X parents think their children make bad money decisions.
From Salon • Dec. 17, 2024
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, goes an old argument, hasn’t art always been bankrolled by bad money?
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2019
“You may make location mistakes. You may not think about what you need for every stage of your life, so you buy the wrong size home or make a bad money decision.”
From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2018
There resulted accordingly, in Saxony, a double system of "good" and "bad" money, with a difference of something like 25 per cent. between them.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur