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Unfortunate, as in Too bad the shoes don't fit you. [Late 1500s]

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We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.
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But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.
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I remember H. Jon Benjamin told me it was a way-too-late apology for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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I gotta say—I think this past year was pretty bad for music.
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Ass-kicking, bad guy-killing Carter is just a future spinster.
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The "bad form" of telling a lie to the head-master is a later illustration of the same thing.
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The men arrived in very bad condition, and many of them blinded with the salt water which had dashed into their eyes.
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Their sin began on Holy Thursday, with so little secrecy and so bad an example, that the affair was beginning to leak out.
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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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If any one has lost his temper, as well as his money, he takes good care not to show it; to do so here would be indeed bad form.
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