Definition of bad

"bad" in the noun sense

1. bad, badness

that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency

"take the bad with the good"

"bad" in the adjective sense

1. bad

having undesirable or negative qualities

"a bad report card"

"his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"

"a bad little boy"

"clothes in bad shape"

"a bad cut"

"bad luck"

"the news was very bad"

"the reviews were bad"

"the pay is bad"

"it was a bad light for reading"

"the movie was a bad choice"

2. bad, big

very intense

"a bad headache"

"in a big rage"

"had a big (or bad) shock"

"a bad earthquake"

"a bad storm"

3. bad, tough

feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'

"my throat feels bad"

"she felt bad all over"

"he was feeling tough after a restless night"

4. bad, spoiled, spoilt

of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition

"bad meat"

"a refrigerator full of spoilt food"

5. regretful, sorry, bad

feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone

"felt regretful over his vanished youth"

"regretful over mistakes she had made"

"he felt bad about breaking the vase"

6. bad, uncollectible

not capable of being collected

"a bad (or uncollectible) debt"

7. bad

below average in quality or performance

"a bad chess player"

"a bad recital"

8. bad

nonstandard

"so-called bad grammar"

9. bad, risky, high-risk, speculative

not financially safe or secure

"a bad investment"

"high risk investments"

"anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"

"speculative business enterprises"

10. bad, unfit, unsound

physically unsound or diseased

"has a bad back"

"a bad heart"

"bad teeth"

"an unsound limb"

"unsound teeth"

11. bad

capable of harming

"bad air"

"smoking is bad for you"

12. bad

characterized by wickedness or immorality

"led a very bad life"

13. bad, forged

reproduced fraudulently

"like a bad penny..."

"a forged twenty dollar bill"

14. bad, defective

not working properly

"a bad telephone connection"

"a defective appliance"

"bad" in the adverb sense

1. badly, bad

with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly'

"the injury hurt badly"

"the buildings were badly shaken"

"it hurts bad"

"we need water bad"

2. badly, bad

very much strongly

"I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it"

"the cables had sagged badly"

"they were badly in need of help"

"he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it"

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Quotations for bad

Bad hen, bad egg. [ Proverb ]

From bad to worse. [ French ]

A bad thing never dies. [ Proverb ]

Never was bad woman fair. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A bad heart, bad designs. [ Terence ]

Few leaves and bad fruit. [ Proverb ]

There's not so bad a Jill,
But there's as bad a Will. [ Proverb ]

Only the bad man is alone. [ Diderot ]

True jests breed bad blood. [ Proverb ]

A bad dog never sees the wolf. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The cheap buyer takes bad meat. [ Proverb ]

Great spenders are bad lenders. [ Proverb ]

Make the best of a bad bargain. [ Proverb ]

Bad excuses are worse than none. [ Proverb ]

Bad luck often brings good luck. [ Proverb ]

Bad keeps up a strife with good. [ Bodenstedt ]

Busy-bodies never want a bad day. [ Proverb ]

Good words cost no more than bad. [ Proverb ]

A bad thing is dear at any price. [ Proverb ]

A bad padlock invites a pick-lock. [ Proverb ]

Love the good and forgive the bad. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

Two removals are as bad as a fire. [ Proverb ]

A good tale ill told is a bad one. [ Proverb ]

A bad Jack may have as bad a Jill. [ Proverb ]

Step by step lift bad to good,
Without halting, without rest.
Lifting Better up to Best;
Planting seeds of knowledge pure.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So nigh is God to man.
When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
The youth replies, I can. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Muddy water is a bad looking-glass. [ Proverb ]

Ask the seller, if his ware be bad. [ Proverb ]

Many a good cow hath but a bad calf. [ Proverb ]

Bad is never good till worse befall. [ Danish Proverb ]

He fasts enough that has a bad meal. [ Proverb ]

A bad wound heals; a bad name kills. [ Proverb ]

A bad penny always comes back again. [ German Proverb ]

Bad grammar does not vitiate a deed. [ Law ]

A bad shift is better than no shift. [ Proverb ]

A bad ending follows a bad beginning. [ Euripides ]

A bad workman never gets a good tool. [ Proverb ]

She's a bad bargain and a crafty one. [ Plaut ]

Bad taste is a species of bad morals. [ Bovee ]

He hurts the good who spares the bad. [ Syrus ]

From a bad paymaster get what you can. [ Proverb ]

Good horses cannot be of a bad colour. [ Proverb ]

Sorrow makes us very good or very bad. [ George Sand ]

Better a bad excuse, than none at all. [ Camden ]

From bad manners good laws have sprung. [ Coke ]

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. [ Burke ]

Better to be alone than in bad company. [ Proverb ]

Trust dies because bad pay poisons him. [ Proverb ]

Good comes to better and better to bad. [ French Proverb ]

Good words are better than bad strokes. [ William Shakespeare ]

The road is not bad if I get home well. [ Proverb ]

Pardoning the bad is injuring the good. [ Proverb ]

An inch in missing, is as bad as an ell. [ Proverb ]

A man is not good or bad for one action. [ Proverb ]

No glue will hold when the joint is bad. [ Proverb ]

He that spares the bad injures the good. [ Proverb ]

Bad manners are a species of bad morals. [ C. N. Bovee ]

Nothing is good or bad but by comparison. [ Proverb ]

In bad fortune hold out; in good, hold in. [ German Proverb ]

No dog is so bad but he will wag his tail. [ Italian Proverb ]

Bad customs are better broke than kept up. [ Proverb ]

The nature of bad news affects the teller. [ William Shakespeare ]

There never was a good war or a bad peace. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

It is a bad bargain where both are losers. [ Proverb ]

Too much is always bad; old proverbs call
Even too much honey nothing else than gall. [ Anon ]

Your sayer of smart things has a bad heart. [ Pascal ]

It is a bad cloth that will take no colour. [ Proverb ]

No man can make a good coat with bad cloth. [ Proverb ]

When better cherries are not to be had.
We needs must take the seeming best of bad. [ Daniel ]

Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper. [ Proverb ]

A thing is not bad if we understand it well. [ German Proverb ]

It is a bad sack that will bear no clouting. [ Proverb ]

Bad priests bring the devil into the church. [ Proverb ]

Were there no fools bad ware would not pass. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is a bad soil where no flowers will grow. [ Proverb ]

If your cast be bad, mend it with good play. [ Proverb ]

Do not take a blind guide nor a bad adviser.

Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions. [ Bishop Porteous ]

He deserves not good that can away with bad. [ Proverb ]

A good hope is better than a bad possession. [ Proverb ]

In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world.
Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost. [ E. B. Browning ]

The earth now supports many bad and weak men. [ Juv ]

To him that has a bad taste, sweet is bitter. [ Proverb ]

Though it be honest, it is never good
To bring bad news; give to a gracious message
An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell
Themselves when they be felt. [ William Shakespeare ]

He is not a bad driver who knows how to turn. [ Danish Proverb ]

Good for the liver may be bad for the spleen. [ Proverb ]

The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant. [ Juvenal ]

Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation. [ Ovid ]

They say, best men are moulded out of faults;
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad. [ William Shakespeare ]

Where bad is the best, bad must be the choice. [ Proverb ]

Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser. [ Flaccus ]

Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales.
And the good suffers while the bad prevails. [ Homer ]

Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. [ William Shakespeare ]

Praise makes good men better and bad men worse. [ Proverb ]

It is a bad action that success cannot justify. [ Proverb ]

A cake and a bad custom are fated to be broken. [ French Proverb ]

Scream as we may at the bad, the good prevails. [ Bartol ]

It is a bad well into which you must pour water. [ German Proverb ]

A good salad may be the prologue to a bad supper. [ Proverb ]

What is good in the mouth, may be bad in the maw. [ Proverb ]

Fire and water are good servants but bad masters. [ Proverb ]

A bad pilot is like a blind man leading the blind. [ Marcus Clarke ]

It is a bad cause indeed that none dares speak in. [ Proverb ]

Boldness is bad in counsel, but good in execution. [ Lord Bacon ]

Be content to please a few; to please many is bad. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

All are good maids, but whence come the bad wives? [ Proverb ]

In the mouth of a bad dog falls often a good bone. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [ Rousseau ]

The bad man always suspects some knavish intention. [ Spanish Proverb ]

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. [ Cicero ]

Into the mouth of a bad dog falls many a good bone. [ Proverb ]

The times are bad, yet there are still great souls. [ Körner ]

Love without faith is as bad as faith without love. [ Beecher ]

A bad man is the sort of man who admires innocence. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one. [ Tacitus ]

Music is good or bad as the end to which it tendeth. [ Feltham ]

Too much care may be as bad as downright negligence. [ Proverb ]

A bad beginning has a bad, or makes a worse, ending. [ Proverb ]

There is but bad choice where the whole stock is bad. [ Proverb ]

City gates stand open to the bad as well as the good. [ Proverb ]

If you would be good, first believe that you are bad. [ Epictetus ]

Like a collier's sack, bad without, but worse within. [ Proverb ]

Learn good from the worst, and not bad from the best. [ Lavater ]

All fame is dangerous: good, brings Envy; bad, shame. [ Proverb ]

Education polishes good nature, and corrects bad ones. [ Proverb ]

Bad men excuse their faults; good men will leave them. [ Ben Jonson ]

A good day will not mend him, nor a bad day impair him. [ Proverb ]

Better fare hard with good men, than feast it with bad. [ Proverb ]

A man loses his time that comes early to a bad bargain. [ Proverb ]

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad. [ Epictetus ]

When the master licks the knife, it is bad for the man. [ Proverb ]

It is not to be called a bad day that has a good night. [ Proverb ]

A good face needs no band, and a bad one deserves none. [ Proverb ]

A man may be good in the camp and yet bad in the church. [ Proverb ]

There is nothing so bad as not to be good for something. [ Proverb ]

Friendship and company are a bad excuse for ill actions. [ Proverb ]

Air coming in at a window, is as bad as a cross-bow-shot. [ Proverb ]

Bad examples may be as profitable to virtue as good ones. [ Montaigne ]

He has but bad food that feeds upon the faults of others. [ Proverb ]

If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold. [ Proverb ]

He's a little fellow, but every bit of that little is bad. [ Proverb ]

Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good. [ Aristotle ]

A good word for a bad one is worth much, and costs little. [ Proverb ]

He that cannot abide a bad market deserves not a good one. [ Proverb ]

Charity, which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. [ William Shakespeare ]

A bad woman is the sort of woman a man never gets tired of. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

It is a bad thing to be a knave, but worse to be found out. [ Italian Proverb ]

It is a bad house where the hen crows louder than the cock. [ Proverb ]

They were both equally bad; so the devil put them together. [ Proverb ]

It is a bad stake that will not stand in the hedge one year. [ Proverb ]

Under the fair words of a bad man there lurks some treachery. [ Phaedr ]

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. [ Calvin ]

It is not the action, but the intention, that is good or bad. [ Proverb ]

There is no man so bad but has a secret respect for the good. [ Proverb ]

There's nothing so bad as not to be of service for something. [ German Proverb ]

Natural folly is bad enough, but learned folly is intolerable. [ Proverb ]

Death is an equal doom to good and bad, the common inn of rest. [ Spenser ]

It is the proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob. [ Seneca ]

Bad beginnings have bad endings (a bad end of a bad beginning). [ Ter ]

There is no mother so bad but she desires to have good children. [ Veneroni ]

A natural propension will have its course; especially a bad one. [ Proverb ]

He who cannot counterfeit a friend can never be a very bad enemy. [ Proverb ]

Be sure you can obey good laws before you seek to alter bad ones. [ John Ruskin ]

Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences. [ Pliny ]

He that would have a bad night may injure his conscience that day. [ Proverb ]

Tale-bearers, as I said before, are just as bad as the tale-makers. [ Sheridan ]

The good need fear no law; it is his safety, and the bad man's awe. [ Ben Jonson ]

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends. [ Bishop Hall ]

One may show himself great in good fortune, but exalted only in bad. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Flattery is a sort of bad money, to which our vanity gives currency. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

He that would have a bad morning may walk out in a fog after a frost. [ Proverb ]

The good end happily, the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

The passions are like fire and water; good servants, but bad masters. [ Proverb ]

Wherever you go, and business be cross, you have a league of bad way. [ Proverb ]

To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's. [ William Penn ]

Scratching is bad, because it begins with pleasure and ends with pain. [ Proverb ]

A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad. [ Milton ]

God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed. [ Saadi ]

If you sail with a bad wind, you need to understand tacking about well. [ Proverb ]

A person with a bad name is already half hanged, saith the old proverb. [ Whipple ]

To try to conceal our own heart, is a bad means to read that of others. [ Rousseau ]

Of those which you read, some are good, some middling, and more are bad. [ Mart., of books ]

I am sick of this bad world! The daylight and the sun grow painful to me. [ Addison ]

If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Good men can more easily see through bad men than the latter can the former. [ Jean Paul Richter ]

A very good or very bad poet is remarkable; but a middling one who can bear? [ Proverb ]

The world is an excellent judge in general, but a very bad one in particular. [ Lord Greville ]

A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever. [ Zimmermann ]

Good purposes should be the directors of good actions, not the apology for bad. [ Proverb ]

The mind that too frequently forgives bad actions will at last forget good ones. [ Reynolds ]

Life is a mauvais quart d'heure (bad quarter hour) made up of exquisite moments. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

There is no book so bad, said the bachelor, but something good may be found in it. [ Cervantes ]

Good things have to be engraved on the memory; bad ones stick there of themselves. [ Charles Reade ]

The foolish and vulgar are always accustomed to value equally the good and the bad. [ Yriarte ]

Good fortune and bad are alike necessary to man in order to develop his capability. [ French ]

Women grown bad are worse than men, because the corruption of the best turns worst. [ Proverb ]

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. [ Carlyle ]

When good Americans die they go to Paris, when bad Americans die they go to America. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life. [ Simonides ]

O Lucius, I am sick of this bad world! The day-light and the sun grow painful to me. [ Addison ]

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

The disposition to do a bad deed is the most terrible punishment of the deed it does. [ Charles Mildway ]

All passions are good when one masters them; all are bad when one is a slave to them. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Chastise the good, and he will grow better; chastise the bad, and he will grow worse. [ Italian Proverb ]

The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister. [ Voltaire ]

In running their race, men of birth look back too much, which is the mark of a bad runner. [ Bacon ]

If one plays good music people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

The castle which Conservatism is set to defend is the actual state of things, good and bad. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good. [ Colton ]

Bad company, muttered the thief, as he stepped to the gallows between the hangman and a monk. [ Dutch Proverb ]

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad. [ Joubert ]

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and hardens clay, expands great souls and contracts bad hearts. [ Rivarol ]

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. It is human, it is divine carrion. [ Thoreau ]

No woman is so bad but we may rejoice when her heart thrills to love, for then God has her by the hand. [ J. M. Barrie ]

For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best. [ Sophocles ]

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. [ W. R. Alger ]

Nature never made an unkind creature; ill-usage and bad habits have deformed a fair and lovely creation. [ Sterne ]

Too bad there's not such a thing as a golden skunk, because you'd probably be proud to be sprayed by one. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. [ H. Ballou ]

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, not do they long deceive. [ La Bruyere ]

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers. [ Colton ]

Good out of good is what every man of intellect can fashion, but it takes genius to evoke good out of bad. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Sin seen from the thought is a diminution or loss; seen from the conscience or will, it is a pravity or bad. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so efficient as their stringent execution. [ U. S. Grant ]

If a man is a gentleman he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman whatever he knows is bad for him. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning. [ John Stuart Mill ]

Lord, what music hast thou provided for thy saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth! [ Izaak Walton ]

Some old men like to give good precepts to console themselves for their inability no longer to give bad examples. [ A. Dupuy ]

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad roasters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes. [ L'Estrange ]

Riches are like bad servants, whose shoes are made of running leather, and will never tarry long with one master. [ Brooks ]

It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad. [ Johnson ]

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word. [ Joseph Roux ]

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not. [ Colton ]

It (wine) produces most of the bad effects of ardent spirits, as misused in our country, and is perhaps more insidious. [ Horatio Greenough, the sculptor, of Florence ]

Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. [ George Washington ]

Bad is by its very nature negative, and can do nothing; whatsoever enables us to do anything, is by its very nature good. [ Carlyle ]

Stern fate and time will have their victims; and the best die first, leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]

The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither their good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity. [ Sallust ]

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we bad never offended. [ Blair ]

None deserve the name of good who have not spirit enough to be bad. Goodness, for the most part, is but indolence, or impotence. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are characters decidedly bad. [ Callenberg ]

I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

The bad fortune of the good, turns their faces up to heaven; and the good fortune of the bad, bows their heads down to the earth. [ Sadi ]

Pleasure and pain, the good, and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

A book may be compared to the life of your neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early. [ Brooke ]

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we bad been endowed with. [ Horace ]

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness. [ Joubert ]

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. [ George Eliot ]

Psychical pain is more easily borne than physical: and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former. [ Heinrich Heine ]

Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb. [ Johnson ]

It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost! [ Bruyere ]

Necessity is a bad recommendation to favors of any kind, which as seldom fall to those who really want them, as to those who really deserve them. [ Fielding ]

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all. [ Bovee ]

A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one, and place his virtues in a fairer light. [ Lillo ]

We should manage our fortune like our constitution; enjoy it when good, have patience when bad, and never apply violent remedies but in cases of necessity. [ La Roche ]

No company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. [ Colton ]

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a good woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

When you're part of a team, you stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you. [ Yogi Berra ]

We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

To protect one's self against the storms of passion, marriage with a good woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman, it proves a tempest in the harbor. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life. [ Willmott ]

You shall not shirk the hobbling Times to catch a ride on the sure-footed Eternities. The times (as Carlyle says) are bad; very well, you are there to make them better. [ John Burroughs ]

When I behold the passion for ornamentation, and the corresponding power, I feel as if women had so far shown what they are bad for, rather than what they are good for. [ Julia Ward Howe ]

Fortitude is not the appetite of formidable things, nor inconsult rashness, but virtue fighting for a truth, derived from knowledge of distinguishing good or bad causes. [ Nabb ]

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. He who is endowed with it may perform very good or very bad actions; all depends upon the principles which direct him. [ Napoleon ]

Too bad you can't just grab a tree by the very tiptop and bend it clear over the ground and then let her fly, because I bet you'd be amazed at all the stuff that comes flying out. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Women always want one to be good. And if we are good when they meet us, they don't love us at all. They like to find us quite irretrievably bad and to leave us quite unattractively good. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance, but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date, and beside, if a woman really repents, she has to go to a bad dressmaker, otherwise no one believes in her. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with the other; but he that gives good admonition and bad example builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. [ Bacon ]

The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the Younger affirm that he never read a book so bad but he drew some profit from it [ Sterne ]

I have no wife or children, good or bad, to provide for; a mere spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts; which, methinks, are diversely presetted unto me, as from a common theatre or scene. [ Burton ]

Good people do a great deal of harm in the world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several - from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy. [ La Bruyere ]

Noted or Notorious? As adjectives, these terms are sometimes misused; as, He is a noted criminal. The better word here would be notorious, the meaning of which is restricted to that which is bad; while noted may be used in either a good or a bad sense. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Never to speak by superlatives is a sign of a wise man; for that way of speaking wounds either truth or prudence. Exaggerations are so many prostitutions of reputation; because they discover the weakness of understanding, and the bad discerning of him that speaks. [ J. Earle ]

All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man or the unity of man, as being all of one degree. Whether in heaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to exist hereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions. [ Thomas Paine ]

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood. [ St. Augustine ]

No man is more miserable than he that hath no adversity. That man is not tried, whether he be good or bad, and God never crowns those virtues which are only faculties and dispositions, but every act of virtue is an ingredient into reward - God so dresses us for heaven. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Civilized society feels that manners are of more importance than morals, and the highest respectability is of less value than the possession of a good chef. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for cold entrees, nor an irreproachable private life for a bad dinner and poor wines. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and aminated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy. [ Quintilian ]

Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will imbitter his days, and spoil him for his proper work. [ Emerson ]

Be not too rash in the breaking of an inconvenient custom; as it was gotten, so leave it by degrees. Danger attends upon too sudden alterations; he that pulls down a bad building by the great may be ruined by the fall, but he that takes it down brick by brick may live to build a better. [ Quarles ]

Nature, when she amused herself by giving stiff manners to old maids, put virtue in a very bad light. A woman must have been a mother to preserve under the chilling influences of time that grace of manner and sweetness of temper, which prompt us to say, One sees that love has dwelt there. [ Lemontey ]

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause. Many of its conclusions, more ingenious than sound, are like the recommendations of a people to keep full bottles, because a good many have been found dead with empty ones by them. [ Bovee ]

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner time; keep back the tears, and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, Oh, nothing! Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts, not to hurt others. [ George Eliot ]

If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you. But I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself; it puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company, and takes up a great deal of time which might be much better employed. [ Chesterfield ]

The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice. [ Swift ]

Living authors, therefore, are usually bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen - for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. [ Colton ]

It deserves to be considered that boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences. Whence it is bad in council though good in execution. The right use of bold persons, therefore, is that they never command in chief, but serve as seconds, under the direction of others. For in council it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them unless they are very great. [ Bacon ]

If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigality drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind. [ Quarles ]

Throughout the pages of history we are struck with the fact that our remarkable men possessed mothers of uncommon talents for good or bad, and great energy of character; it would almost seem from this circumstance, that the impress of the mother is more frequently stamped on the boy, and that of the father upon the girl - we mean the mental intellectual impress, in distinction from the physical ones. Mothers will do well to remember that their impress is often stamped upon their sons. [ Helen Mar ]

It is to be hoped that, with all the modern improvements, a mode will be discovered of getting rid of bores: for it is too bad that a poor wretch can be punished for stealing your pocket handkerchief or gloves, and that no punishment can be inflicted on those who steal your time, and with it your temper and patience, as well as the bright thoughts that might have entered into your mind (like the Irishman who lost the fortune before he had got it), but were frightened away by the bore. [ Byron ]

The love of a mother is never exhausted; it never changes, it never tires. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands; but a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; she still remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of Iris childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. [ W. Irving ]

bad in Scrabble®

The word bad is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters bad:

DAB
(18)
DAB
(18)
BAD
(18)
BAD
(18)
DAB
(18)
BAD
(18)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word bad

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The 46 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In bad

DAB
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DAB
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BAD
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BAD
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AD
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AB
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AD
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bad in Words With Friends™

The word bad is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters bad:

DAB
(21)
BAD
(21)
BAD
(21)
DAB
(21)
DAB
(21)
BAD
(21)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word bad

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The 48 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In bad

DAB
(21)
BAD
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BAD
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DAB
(21)
DAB
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BAD
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DAB
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BAD
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BAD
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DAB
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AB
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BAD
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BAD
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DAB
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AB
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Word Growth involving bad

Shorter words in bad

ad

Longer words containing bad

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baddest

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bade outbade

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badge badged unbadged

badge badgeless

badge badger badgered unbadgered

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badlands

badly

badman badmanner badmannered

badminton

badmouth badmouthed

badmouth badmouthing

badmouth badmouths

badness

badtempered

subadamantine

subadult subadults

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