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bad checks

n. (bad check English)

Usage examples of "bad checks".

This cashless system will be readily accepted by the world because it will counteract robbery, credit card theft, poor credit ratings, and bad checks.

But he wasn't-not even after Wetherby tried to frame Grafton by making him pass some bad checks.

They were deposited in other banks by people whom we can't identify but who must have opened accounts for the purpose of finally putting through a few bad checks.

As in any other business, it is impossible to completely escape bad checks and bad accounts.

Besides the valise (two spare shirts, some socks, underwear, the jewelry box with its keepsakes), the clothes I was wearing, and the change in my pockets, I owned less than nothing -- fourteen thousand dollars in bad checks were out there looking for me.

However, he proved only slightly more skillful at passing bad checks than he was at hot-wiring Oldsmobiles.

My bank charges a service service fee if my account drops below a certain level, and they go berserk with overdraft charges if I screw up and write a few bad checks, but they don't have anything called a depository charge.

The consequences of writing bad checks no longer seemed quite so hypothetical.

She wrote nearly ten thousand dollars in bad checks signed in my name.

Tacked to the wall there was a list of addresses for customers who'd passed bad checks and those in the habit of calling more than one cab to see who could get there first.

He drifted across the country shoplifting, writing bad checks and breaking into houses here and there.