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Example sentences for "not good"

  • It was not my fault," she almost whispered; "I am not good, but I am not so bad as that.

  • Is it not good of him to come, when he is so dreadfully busy?

  • You must know how I feel--that it is not good for me!

  • I am afraid it is not good," he replied evasively.

  • It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.

  • Also to punish the righteous is not good, nor to flog officials for their integrity.

  • To show partiality in judgment is not good.

  • To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

  • A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

  • Everything in the world has its function, and is good or not good in so far as it fulfils this function more or less perfectly.

  • It is not good,' he said, when he had gone past her.

  • Good or not good, she could not go to them.

  • Which, when it comes to actual practice, is not good enough.

  • Our reputation's not good enough to ask for explanations.

  • It is not good to look at death with a clear eye.

  • Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.

  • It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

  • Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

  • Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

  • A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.

  • It is not good to be always sad, is it, Herr Harz?

  • I should say it was more as if he couldn't bear to force anyone to do anything; he seems to see both sides of every question, and he's not good at making up his mind, of course.

  • We're not good at taking the lyrical point of view.

  • She was not good at standing injustice--not good at all!

  • Then Oswif said, "Though the course be not good, let us still turn back.

  • It is not good counsel," said Thorhall Asgrim's son, "that this should not be hidden until the courts are set.

  • One day Hallgerda said to Gunnar--"It is not good to be content with that hundred in silver which thou tookest for my kinsman Brynjolf.

  • My hope for success therein is all the greater because it is the cause of God I plead, and because one of the maxims here upheld states that God's help is never lacking for those that lack not good will.

  • But he adds also at the same time that it is not good either to say the opposite, and to attribute to God that he wills the evil; because that is not seemly, and would appear to accuse God of lack of goodness.

  • He adds that it is not good to say that an action which God does not will happens, since that is to say in effect that God is lacking in power.

  • Is that of the greatest dignity, which reason often chooses to let go for that which is not good?

  • For if without good the indifference to that which is not good cannot be understood, much less does the knowing of good things give any intelligence of itself to those who had not before some notion of the good.

  • Therefore an action is not good or evil from its end.

  • If not, it cannot make the action better or worse; because what is not good, cannot make a greater good; and what is not evil, cannot make a greater evil.

  • Therefore an action is not good or bad from a circumstance.

  • Objection 1: It would seem that an action is not good or evil from a circumstance.

  • And I said to them: The thing you do is not good: why walk you not in the fear of our God, that we be not exposed to the reproaches of the Gentiles our enemies?

  • And Chusai said to Absalom: The counsel that Achitophel hath given this time is not good.

  • But he said: The thing thou dost is not good.

  • Instead of "I enjoy bad health," say "My health is not good.

  • Instead of "These kind of oranges are not good," say "This kind of oranges is not good.

  • Copyholders may not grant a lease for longer than one year, unless by custom, or permission of the lord: and the lease of a steward of a manor is not good, unless he is duly invested with a power for that purpose.

  • Now be patient for we must chew betel-nut, for it is not good for us to talk until we know each other's names.

  • No, it is not good for me to tell my name first, for I am a woman.

  • She called often for Aponitolau to come and eat and he went and he said, "I want to wait until your husband comes, for it is not good for us to eat first, and it is not good for us to be eating when he arrives.

  • No it is not good for a woman to tell her name first, so you must tell your name," said Asibowan.

  • It is not good that a wife should run so fast.

  • But if the medicine is not good medicine?

  • However, if it is not good, then do by me as you have done to the others.

  • The good that man does from what is his own is not good, but in itself is evil (n.

  • So far as works look to self and the world they are not good, but they are good so far as they look to the Lord and the neighbor (n.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not good" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    not ask; not because; not care; not far from the; not long; not love; not necessarily; not say; not sure; not the same thing; not think; not understand; not want; not what; not wholly; not worth; not yet; note paper; nothing like; nothing that; nothing wrong; notice the; noticed hereafter; notwithstanding the; these times; true science