Bad news and Wrong

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Wrong and bad news are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wrong" instead an adjective phrase "Bad news".

Wrong adjective - Falling short of a standard.

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Bad news and wrong are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bad news" instead an adjective "Wrong".

The worse news is that the cheetah took them in the wrong direction of White Castle, whereas the bad news was Harold's laptop had been destroyed.

Source: Good News, Bad News
When you fearfully approach him to break the bad news, he reacts calmly to the various (false) accounts of disaster you can give him, but as soon as you give up and say "Oh, actually nothing's wrong" he instantly deduces the truth and flies into a rage.

Source: Milholland Relationship Moment
Good News, Bad News: Pinball is dispatched to find three white convicts named Carl, Benson, and Popovich, because they need to deliver them to the unsuspecting guards below to keep up the ruse that nothing is wrong on the plane.

Source: Film / Con Air

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