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View synonyms for bad news

bad news

noun

, Informal.
  1. an annoying, disturbing, unwelcome thing or person; nuisance; troublemaker.


bad news

noun

  1. slang.
    someone or something regarded as undesirable

    he's bad news around here

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Terrorism is bad news anywhere, but especially rough on Odessa, where the city motto seems to be “make love, not war.”

Of course, the bad news for A&F is that they have united some in these two communities against them.

And that was the real bad news for Young Living, because a drug has to be studied and claims verified.

And even if you do end up buying a fake—well, it might not all be bad news.

Seven days after receiving the letter from Navarro, Abidogun had yet to break the “bad news” to his brother-in-law and his nephew.

In fact, he had placed himself in so unsatisfactory a position as to render anything but bad news next door to an impossibility.

"I have just received bad news—news which I have all along dreaded," replied the unhappy man, the telegram still in his hand.

Father Francis, thus converted to her side, lost no time; he walked into the dining-room and told Neville he had bad news for him.

Things were looking gloomy for the Allies and the boy had been going over the bad news.

When I got home from the village a couple of evenings ago a bareheaded delegation met me at the road gate with bad news.

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