bad paper
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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A friend eventually hired him to work at a photo-booth company, and Goldsmith began contacting members of Congress to press for health care for veterans with bad paper.
From Washington Times • May 25, 2018
The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, citing her bad paper, denied her a veteran’s license plate.
From Time • May 18, 2016
That’s what Robert Szczerba should have written, if he’d looked at the real science instead of one really bad paper.
From Forbes • Jan. 20, 2015
It had been bad paper, Owens said, and he’d gotten burned on the deal.
From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2014
He would not have the first editions of the classics, because they were generally printed on bad paper which it was disagreeable to touch, with the exception of works produced by the Aldine Press.
From The Great Book-Collectors by Elton, Charles Isaac
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