have a bad name
Example Sentences
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Foreign interventions have a bad name, and a bad history here.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2022
But it can’t be all gloom: misery memoirs have a bad name.
From The Guardian • Dec. 14, 2019
You feel really guilty, and you don’t want them to have a bad name.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2019
Politicians have a bad name: a lot of fathers would not want their daughters to marry one, and candidates' wives openly express the wish that their husbands were in some other line of work.
From Time Magazine Archive
I could hear the merry songs of the assembly down in the sycamores, but not a bird lit while we were there—the shrikes certainly have a bad name among their neighbors.
From A-Birding on a Bronco by Merriam, Florence A.
