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Example sentences for "bad man"

  • His friends say that he may have been a bad man, but he certainly had large ideas.

  • His enemies say that he may have had large ideas, but he was a bad man.

  • A good man was a good man; a bad man was a bad man.

  • That he is a bad man I can't say, because I don't know him, but that I don't like him I have told you a thousand times already.

  • Going away, I ought to have told that she was right, that I really was a bad man.

  • Of the million people working for the peasantry, life itself had cast me out as a useless, incompetent, bad man.

  • And the spectacle had inspired him with a horror of unchecked power in the hands of a bad man, and a gloomy distrust of that human nature which could sink to such ignoble servility.

  • But there can be little doubt that Domitian, although he was astute and able, was also a bad man, with the peculiar traits which always make a man unpopular.

  • You're a bad man; there's only one worse than you, and that's Isaac Dent.

  • Jabez is a bad, bad man, and all your goodness won't turn him into a good one.

  • But, say, have I not been good to you--bad man as you think me to be?

  • If Lord Donald's a bad man, I want to know why he is a bad man--and then I'll decide.

  • What was that the fire-warden was saying to you, Thad, about some sort of bad man up in this region, that gave the game wardens more trouble than all the rest of the poachers combined?

  • It is impressed upon me, uncle, that Curtis is a bad man.

  • The man who brought me here is a bad man, who is trying to cheat his cousin--a young lady--out of a fortune.

  • In New York you were under the influence of a bad man, from whom it is best that you should be permanently separated.

  • And your second danger in connection with your minister is, that you have, and may have long had, a good minister, but that you still remain yourself a bad man.

  • Eli in the Old Testament was not a bad man, but he destroyed both the ark of the Lord and himself and his sons also, because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.

  • Or, is your companion, who is not a bad man in anything else, leading you, in this and in that, into what at any rate is bad for you?

  • The world is well rid of him," observed Slowfoot; "he was a bad man.

  • If he was a bad man, you have sent him to the world of Desolation, where he will be waiting to receive you when you get there, and where revenge will be impossible, for men are not allowed to kill or scalp there.

  • Kateegoose fired that shot he must be a bad man.

  • I was carried off by a bold, bad man--thy Knight of the Bloody Vest.

  • A bad man, equally with a good man enjoys these two capacities.

  • A bad man as well as a good man may do this.

  • He had a little the reputation, in some quarters, of being a "bad man.

  • Hot Springs has a modern hotel and an improved bar; a scant thirty miles north is the unsheriffed log-mining camp where the "bad man" terrorizes in all his glory.

  • There one might in time meet all sorts and conditions of men, from the English lord to the turbulent Fenian; from the New York exquisite fallen on hard times to the "bad man" who had never been east of the Mississippi.

  • You said my father was a bad man," cried the outraged patient.

  • I said you thought he was a bad man," declared the midget girl.

  • My Uncle Guardy thinks your father is a bad man," said the fairy, not without a spice of malice.

  • It is impossible for you, a frank and careless boy, to realise the feelings of a man who looks at his only child, and remembers that she may soon be left, helpless and defenceless, to fight the battle of life with a bad man.

  • I dare say worldly people would laugh at me for writing this letter to you, my dear Arundel; but I address myself to the best friend I have,--the only creature I know whom the influence of a bad man is never likely to corrupt.

  • Paul Marchmont might be a bad man, but his mother and sister loved him, and surely they were ignorant of his wickedness.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bad man" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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