bum rap
Example Sentences
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“My two-engine plane was out at Burbank, waiting, so that if I got a bum rap, I’d get out there, hop in, and leave America and my screen career forever.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
But there is a level on which the president is getting a bum rap.
From Fox News ● Jun. 2, 2020
“It’s a bum rap for AI. It’s an excuse. We’ve got to get out of the habit of looking at AI or any other technology as simply a way to fire people.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2020
On Epstein then, but later: “My relationship with him was entirely professional. It is a total bum rap to say that I ‘cavorted’ with him or was ‘chummy’ with him.”
From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2019
The class laughed along with him, but I always thought cliches got a bum rap.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
