Examples of bad name in a Sentence
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News reports of the arrival of Tren de Aragua in American cities is alarming members of the Venezuelan community living in the United States, who fear the gang will end giving a bad name to all migrants from the South American country.
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Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024
Checking bank accounts, tax records Even though the Miami bling is what gives the PPP loan schemers a bad name, investigators say that’s not how they usually get caught for ripping off the government program.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2024
Jon Bon Jovi doesn't think his son Jake is giving love a bad name, despite getting engaged at only 20 years old.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 May 2023
The Bon Jovi Story, the project comes from Gotham Chopra’s Religion of Sports banner and will chronicle the mega-selling arena rock band’s 40-year run of riding steel horses and giving love a bad name.
—Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2024
Even some harm reductionists told me that Jones was giving the approach a bad name.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
That sort of throwaway line is the sort of thing that feeds the doomsayers and gives science a bad name.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2010
The company's co-founder, KSI, Paul’s fellow social media star and former boxing rival, has made plans to avenge PRIME’s bad name.
—Alisa Hrustic, Men's Health, 30 June 2023
Sure, rainbow bagels and funfetti cream cheese gave the sweet bagel sandwich a bad name.
—Esra Erol, Bon Appétit, 27 June 2023
Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024
Checking bank accounts, tax records Even though the Miami bling is what gives the PPP loan schemers a bad name, investigators say that’s not how they usually get caught for ripping off the government program.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2024
Jon Bon Jovi doesn't think his son Jake is giving love a bad name, despite getting engaged at only 20 years old.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 May 2023
The Bon Jovi Story, the project comes from Gotham Chopra’s Religion of Sports banner and will chronicle the mega-selling arena rock band’s 40-year run of riding steel horses and giving love a bad name.
—Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2024
Even some harm reductionists told me that Jones was giving the approach a bad name.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
That sort of throwaway line is the sort of thing that feeds the doomsayers and gives science a bad name.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2010
The company's co-founder, KSI, Paul’s fellow social media star and former boxing rival, has made plans to avenge PRIME’s bad name.
—Alisa Hrustic, Men's Health, 30 June 2023
Sure, rainbow bagels and funfetti cream cheese gave the sweet bagel sandwich a bad name.
—Esra Erol, Bon Appétit, 27 June 2023
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“Bad name.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bad%20name. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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