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noun Informal .
an annoying, disturbing, unwelcome thing or person; nuisance; troublemaker.
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How to use bad news in a sentence Oxidized iron wouldn’t form a planetary core, which could be bad news for life, Rogers says.
The bad news is that it’s looking more and more like we might not be able to eradicate covid-19.
There’s good news and bad news in a remarkable new multi-year study of nearly 15,000 people who followed an ultra-minimalist strength training plan involving just one short workout a week.
A prolonged government crisis would be really bad news for businesses like Alessandro’s.
The loss aside, Tuesday wasn’t all bad news for the Wizards.
We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.
Almost all of the network and cable news channels said that they would not be showing the cartoons either.
Other major news outlets made the same decision, hiding behind a misplaced sense of multicultural sensitivity.
And extortion makes a lot more sense before a story hits the news wire, not after.
Earlier this week, Huckabee ended his Fox News talk show so he could spend time mulling another bid for the Republican nomination.
The expatriated ex-rebels became alarmed by the non-receipt of the indemnity instalment and the news from their homes.
The "bad form" of telling a lie to the head-master is a later illustration of the same thing.
The men arrived in very bad condition, and many of them blinded with the salt water which had dashed into their eyes.
Their sin began on Holy Thursday, with so little secrecy and so bad an example, that the affair was beginning to leak out.
Conditions in the new country had gone from bad to worse, and if the season should experience another drought, the worst was come.
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British Dictionary definitions for bad news
noun
slang someone or something regarded as undesirable he's bad news around here
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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Other Idioms and Phrases with bad news
1 An unwelcome thing or person, trouble. For example, That fire was bad news; we were underinsured for the damage , or No one wants Mary on the board—she's bad news . This term transfers literal bad news—the report of an unhappy recent event—to an unwanted or undesirable individual or circumstance. [Slang ; 1920s]
2 The amount charged for something, as in Waiter, bring our check—I want to see the bad news . [Slang ; 1920s]
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary
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