Bad-thing meaning

An action that yields undesirable results to its subject.
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Origin of bad-thing

  • Originally from the 1930 book 1066 And All That by W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman, popularized through hacker culture.
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Bad-thing Sentence Examples

  • Whether that was a good or bad thing she couldn't guess, and she didn't have time to ask.

  • And that's a bad thing?

  • Aaron seemed to be a little wary of the bison, which wasn't altogether a bad thing.

  • The bad thing about being mated to an Oracle – you never know what she's plotting.

  • It's not a bad thing if a world-class bowler like Mushtaq is on at you all of the time.

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