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bad debts

n. (bad debt English)

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Bad Debts

Bad Debts (1996) is a Ned Kelly Award-winning novel by Australian author Peter Temple. This is the first novel in the author's Jack Irish series.

Usage examples of "bad debts".

But his earnings depended on the success of his house, and he had to cover bad debts.

To my surprise, bad debts turned out to be more common in Chelsea than in Whitechapel.

Tariq scanned the name of the foreign national, who had been imprisoned for bad debts.

Millington had come to the conclusion that Welfram was a frightener hired to shake out bad debts: a rent-a-thug in general, not solely Filmer's man.

Livia's will, which we legatees had long ago written off as bad debts.

The fuel-sellers have had so many bad debts, they won't provide fuel on any other terms.