bum rap
Example Sentences
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But it’s a bum rap to blame the state government for not building more dams in California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
But there is a level on which the president is getting a bum rap.
From Fox News ● Jun. 2, 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
In a word, no — that is a bum rap, in noir-speak.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2018
The class laughed along with him, but I always thought cliches got a bum rap.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
