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

Regarding the May 13 Style article “A bum rap? Educator was fired for reading ‘Butt’ book.”:

From Washington Post • May 18, 2022

But there is a level on which the president is getting a bum rap.

From Fox News • Jun. 2, 2020

Picasso parried by mocking the apparent repetitiveness of the gaunt figures that had become the exclusive focus of Giacometti’s sculpture during his war years in Switzerland—a bum rap, as this show proves.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 11, 2018

The class laughed along with him, but I always thought cliches got a bum rap.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini