Bad name
see: give a bad name
contemporary examples
no, you are going to ruin any chance you have and give us a bad name.
the resurrection of kristen stewart marlow stern october 10, 2014
by contrast, george w. bush launched two disastrous wars, and in so doing gave gop bl-ster a bad name.
romney response to egypt emb-ssy attack makes it easy for obama peter beinart september 12, 2012
peter beinart on how team tea is giving populism a bad name.
the tea partiers’ phony populism peter beinart february 7, 2010
his flaw was that he sometimes gave rigor and intellectual honesty a bad name by reminding people how unsettling it can be.
who’ll replace larry summers? the daily beast september 21, 2010
salon called it a franchise that “is exactly the kind of movie that gives sequels a bad name.”
top 10 most played-out movie franchises marlow stern february 16, 2011
historical examples
this is the b-tterwort (pinguicula), and it is not a bad name, for the leaves remind one of b-tter.
the romance of plant life g. f. scott elliot
you know you’re giving the school a bad name by being so lazy.
frank roscoe’s secret allen chapman
i spoke in some dismay, for in those days privateers bore a bad name.
athelstane ford allen upward
if your feeling is not pride, why call a good thing by a bad name?
wilfrid c-mbermede george macdonald
like a dog, one may give a word a bad name, yet it may be a good dog and a very good word when rightly used.
appletons’ popular science monthly, april 1899 various
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