bad apple
a discontented, troublemaking, or dishonest person: In any group of average citizens there are bound to be a few bad apples.
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How to use bad apple in a sentence
If law enforcement has only a few bad apples that need to be rooted out, I want to see the good ones.
Derek Chauvin’s Guilty and So Is the Whole Damn System | Goldie Taylor | April 20, 2021 | The Daily BeastLike there’s no way to look at this and not say that there isn’t kind of a systemic set of issues, including what feels like not one or two bad apples but a lot of bad apples.
Houston’s Police Chief on How to Stop ‘Lawful but Awful’ Policing | Joshua Eferighe | September 30, 2020 | OzyI used to always say the few bad apples, and I just had a conversation about 30 minutes ago with some of my chiefs about, some of the guys are mad because you’re saying we don’t just have a few bad apples, that we have bushels of apples.
Houston’s Police Chief on How to Stop ‘Lawful but Awful’ Policing | Joshua Eferighe | September 30, 2020 | OzyHowever, I do not believe that there are enough bad apples to say that there is a problem in policing.
I know far too many officers, and I also know from officers that the worst thing that can happen in the police force is a bad apple.
This is the old trick of finding one bad apple and extrapolating away to beat the band.
What’s Really Obstructing Obamacare? GOP Resisters | Michael Tomasky | November 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Republican Party will blame the culture of corruption on one bad apple named Jim Greer and move on.
“And you are selling inferior silk by your pretty face, just as a fine rind may cover a bad apple,” he retorted.
The Great Mogul | Louis TracyCan one speckled and bad apple in a barrel of diseased apples turn the other apples good?
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