bad news
Example Sentences
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"There's been a continuous desire to cut down the flow of bad news, to filter it out somehow, not to discuss it with relatives or friends. Perhaps that's where this surge in interest in culture comes from."
From Barron's
Queen Jackson was telling Nila Holcomb, “That boy is just bad news.”
From Literature
The bad news is that the birth rate is not high enough to offset an acute population decline, and Japan is not very open to immigration.
From MarketWatch
“It’s been long and it’s been hard and very difficult at times, but the good news is that the bad news is behind us,” Katzenberg told The Times in 2012.
From Los Angeles Times
International oil prices soon cratered — bad news for his chosen successor, Maduro.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
