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There's worse kinds of badness than what you call bad.
Dr. Jonathan Winston Churchill 1909
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There's worse kinds of badness than what you call bad.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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Suddenly he couldn't breathe, and he rose with a gasp, facing the miracle that had overtaken the place he called bad.
The Happy End Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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The down-trodden proletariat, on the other hand were bad, i.e. lowly and ignoble, without any other derogatory meaning being given to the word bad.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Having lost his father at an early age and later, his mother, Adekunle Oloyede had to struggle through life, an experience he described as bad.
Vanguard azuakanwa 2010
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"Not what you think bad," he said, with a hoarse chuckle, "but what we call bad.
The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap George Manville Fenn 1870
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Much as I loved him, even I could see that his diction was often clumsy and forced and that a lot of his poems were plain bad.
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Much as I loved him, even I could see that his diction was often clumsy and forced and that a lot of his poems were plain bad.
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Much as I loved him, even I could see that his diction was often clumsy and forced and that a lot of his poems were plain bad.
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This one was pretty good, but I'm sure there are some out there that are just plain bad.
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