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BAD - /B-A-D/ Broken As Designed, a play on "working as designed", from IBM. Failing because of bad design and misfeatures rather than because of bugs.


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Badness and goodness, again, are predicated of man, and of many other things, but it is not necessary that either the one quality or the other should be present in that of which they are predicated: it is not true to say that everything that may be good or bad must be either good or bad.
The Categories by Aristotle View in context
These pirates, a bad lot of men, used to wait for sailors to be shipwrecked on their shores.
The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Lofting, Hugh View in context
Oh, you bad boys, how could you do it, to-day of all days?
Eight Cousins by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
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