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bad lot
n. A bad person.
Usage examples of "bad lot".
Bounderby, the two gentlemen at this present moment walking through Coketown, and both eminently practical, who could, on occasion, furnish more tabular statements derived from their own personal experience, and illustrated by cases they had known and seen, from which it clearly appeared - in short, it was the only clear thing in the case - that these same people were a bad lot altogether, gentlemen.
The early managers of this institootion were a bad lot, and their crimes were trooly orful.