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n. 1 (&lit bad name English) 2 Lack of reverence or esteem. Poor reputation.
Usage examples of "bad name".
They called themselves the Galileo Club-not a bad name for a group of space-minded young men who had high hopes of putting one of their homemade rocket ships in orbit.
Probably turn her over to the police, since people like her gave the business a bad name.
I am not one who would condone that tampering with the truth which often gave my order a bad name in the olden days.
He was young, and had a bad name for shying and starting, by which he had lost a good place.
We do not wish little Shamlegh to get a bad name on account of the - accident.
They give our Fascism a bad name by associating themselves with us.
For the heroic times of copious bleeding and blistering had not yet departed, still less the times of thorough-going theory, when disease in general was called by some bad name, and treated accordingly without shilly-shally--as if, for example, it were to be called insurrection, which must not be fired on with blank-cartridge, but have its blood drawn at once.
It struck her with dreadful force, and she was ready to give it every bad name in the world.
He really took to Arkansas, where everybody called him Win, not a bad name for a politician.