bad paper
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, citing her bad paper, denied her a veteran’s license plate.
From Time ● May 18, 2016
About half the clients suffer from combat-related PTSD, traumatic brain injury, or sexual assault, said Tyrone Beach, a service officer at the center, and many have bad paper.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 11, 2015
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
Learn how to make that infernal note-book perfectly all right in spite of the bad paper.
From Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield
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