rotten deal

Example Sentences

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Baroness Margaret Hodge, who chaired the Public Accounts Committee between 2010 and 2015, said the Royal Lodge arrangement "looks like a rotten deal".

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025

The risk is that sheer exhaustion will make any rotten deal that the Hulk drags home look better than nothing.

From The Guardian • Sep. 16, 2019

And when the state slapped us in the face last year by striking a rotten deal to allow strictly limited access, including by kayak, the public fumed.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2019

Even if they are doing so incoherently, the protesters are making a valid point: Europe’s young are being offered a rotten deal.

From BusinessWeek • Jan. 11, 2011

But it's a darned rotten deal, just the same.

From Thirty by O'Brien, Howard Vincent