bad in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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II.bad <comp worse, superl worst> [Brit bad, Am bæd] ADJ

1. bad (poor, inferior, incompetent, unacceptable):

bad book, harvest, spelling, eyesight, answer, memory, cook, father, liar, management, decision, idea
mauvais
bad attr joke
stupide
a bad thing
une mauvaise chose
to have bad hearing
ne pas très bien entendre
to have bad teeth/bad legs
avoir de mauvaises dents/de vilaines jambes
to be bad at subject
être mauvais en
to be bad at sport
ne pas être doué pour le sport
to be bad at doing (do badly)
ne pas être doué pour faire
to be bad at doing (dislike doing, do reluctantly)
avoir du mal à faire
that's bad! (disapproving)
c'est une honte!
not bad inf
pas mauvais, pas mal inf
it wouldn't be a bad idea to…
ce ne serait pas une mauvaise idée de…
as bosses go she's not bad
comme patronne elle n'est pas mal inf

III.bad [Brit bad, Am bæd] ADV inf esp Am

bad-tempered [Brit ˌbadˈtɛmpəd, Am ˌbædˈtɛmpərd] ADJ

bad-mouth [Brit, Am ˈbædˌmaʊθ] VB trans inf

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bad-mannered [Brit ˌbadˈmanəd, Am ˌbædˈmænərd] ADJ

bad in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for bad in the English»French Dictionary (Go to French»English)

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I.bad <worse, worst> [bæd] ADJ

II.bad <worse, worst> [bæd] ADV inf

III.bad <worse, worst> [bæd] N no pl

bid1 <-dd-, bid [or bade], bid [or -den]> [bɪd] VB trans form

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II.bid2 <-dd-, bid, bid> [bɪd] VB intr

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III.bid2 <-dd-, bid, bid> [bɪd] VB trans

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bad Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to do sth with (a) good/bad grace
faire qc de bonne/mauvaise grâce
to come to a bad [or sticky] end
mal finir
to give a dog a bad name Brit prov
qui veut noyer son chien l'accuse de la rage
to be a good/bad lookout for sb
être de bonne/mauvaise augure pour qn
to be in a good/bad temper
être de bonne/mauvaise humeur
to be off to a bad start
être mal emmanché négociation
to get off to a bad start
mal s'emmancher négociation
if ever anything bad happened to me
si jamais il m'arrivait malheur
to be in a good/bad mood
être de bon/mauvais poil inf
to be in a bad mood with sb
faire la gueule à qn inf
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They give the fox some anesthetic and proceed to treat the bad tooth.
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She became a bit of a punch bag and a bit of a bad gag.
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A woman was divorced and sent back to her family not only for bad health or barrenness but disobedience, jealousy, and even talkativeness.
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She has bad news: despite the class being especially aimed at socializing disruptive students, they still have to follow the school board's missive that they teach to the upcoming test.
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Eliciting sympathy by telling exaggerated stories about bad deeds of other people (e.g. during gossip).
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All waxworks are a bit unnerving, but mostly they're hilariously bad.
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Yet even if stasis is common why suppose that this is bad news for the extrapolationist orthodoxy?
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He claims that there is no good or evil, but rather only good or bad art.
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We were disgusted in twenty pages, as, independent of a bad translation, it has indelicacies which disgrace a pen hitherto so pure.
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The doctor said the fall had not been that bad and the child would have survived had he not been a haemophiliac.
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