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bad

adjective as in disobedient or mischievous

adjective as in of food, decayed or rotten

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adjective as in severe, serious

adjective as in sick

adjective as in (informal) impressively tough or skillful

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“It’s completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon. It’s a bad look.”

The Met Police said it had undertaken a major cultural turnaround and sacked bad officers.

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It added that it risked "inflicting significant harm on the Afghan people, including by threatening economic stability and exacerbating one of the world's worst humanitarian crises".

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“We continue to argue that it’s critical to have safety incentives for utilities, and letting them cause fires and not pay for them is the worst safety incentive there is,” Frazier said.

As the elder berates her child for being a “bad bad girl,” the reader will hear the echoes of her own mother’s chastisements, a song of intergenerational despair.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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