Bad and Failing

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Bad noun - That which is morally unacceptable.

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Failing and bad are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Failing" instead the word "Bad" as a noun or an adjective.

Nearby Words: badly, badness

Failing noun - A defect in character.

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Bad and failing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bad" instead the word "Failing" as a noun or an adjective.

Nearby Words: fail, failure, failed

After failing to impress Amy's parents, Amy assures Kif that it's a good thing that Amy's parents don't like him, which raises the question, is it the trope that's inverted, or the meaning of 'bad'?

Source: All Girls Want Bad Boys
McCallum seems to be trying a broad working-class Australian accent but instead sounds like a Cockney trying and failing to do a bad West Country accent instead.

Source: Ooh Me Accents Slipping / Live-Action TV
In Requiem for a Rogue, an arc of the X-Wing Series comics, the bad guy, failing to kill the Rogues, is interrupted by a new bad guy with a stronger connection to the Force.

Source: Your Head A-Splode

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