bad name

noun

: bad reputation
A few dishonest players have given the sport a bad name.

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Trying to convince America that someone who gave us the aforementioned three items while president would destroy our democracy, gave hyperbole a bad name. Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 23 Nov. 2024 Those kinds of controllers gave third-party gamepads a bad name—one that persists to this day. Jaina Grey, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2024 Bluming explained how the results were misinterpreted, not only giving estrogen a bad name but also leading to an unnecessary aversion to a treatment that could, in fact, protect against heart disease, osteoporosis and cognitive decline. Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 28 Oct. 2024 Not a bad name for a 1700cc single-cylinder chopper. New Atlas, 19 Sep. 2024 Intraparty democracy sounds like the kind of pious demand that gives democratic theorists a bad name among hard-nosed politicians. Jan-Werner Müller, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2022 Much of the Great Society legislation, for example, now seems to embody the sort of hubris that gave liberalism a bad name, and its overreach paved the way for the Reagan counterrevolution of the 1980s. Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2012 That was the main sentiment: Locals are tired of outsiders giving them a bad name. Caitlin Tan, NPR, 1 June 2024 Microsoft’s developer conference was this week, right on the heels of its Copilot Plus PC announcement, which is a bad name but a potentially very exciting moment for the Windows world. David Pierce, The Verge, 24 May 2024

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“Bad name.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bad%20name. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.

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