bad money

Example Sentences

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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

“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

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

In early December, new data from the company showed that most full-time drivers on Uber’s New York City platform were earning $50,000 to $70,000—not bad money, but certainly not $90,000.

From Slate • Dec. 30, 2014

Nor was this altogether a delusion; he had had a considerable experience of mankind and the world, and had contrived to pass his bad money on them as excellent coin of the realm.

From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James