bum rap
Example Sentences
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Nation building got a bum rap during the 1990s as U.S. troops deployed to Somalia, Haiti and the Balkans.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2021
But there is a level on which the president is getting a bum rap.
From Fox News ● Jun. 2, 2020
An amnesiac climbs out of a car wreck and faces an unhappy wife, a rotten cousin and a bum rap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 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
