bad paper
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, citing her bad paper, denied her a veteran’s license plate.
From Time • May 18, 2016
About half the clients suffer from combat-related PTSD, traumatic brain injury, or sexual assault, said Tyrone Beach, a service officer at the center, and many have bad paper.
From Washington Times • Nov. 11, 2015
That’s what Robert Szczerba should have written, if he’d looked at the real science instead of one really bad paper.
From Forbes • Jan. 20, 2015
It had been bad paper, Owens said, and he’d gotten burned on the deal.
From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2014
Up to the end of the fifteenth, or indeed, the first quarter of the sixteenth centuries, no bad paper was made, and the greater part was very good indeed.
From The Art and Craft of Printing by Morris, William
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