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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discourtesy | Adverb: discourteously; Adjective: with discourtesy; Noun: with a bad grace. |
Unwillingness | Adverb: unwillingly; Adjective: grudgingly, with a heavy heart; with a bad, with an ill grace; against one's wishes, against one's will, against the grain, sore against one's wishes, sore against one's will, sore against one's grain; invita Minerva; a contre caeur; malgre soi; in spite of one's teeth, in spite of oneself; nolens volens; (necessity); perforce; under protest; no; not for the world, far be it from me. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: WITH A BAD |
| English words defined with "WITH A BAD": gustatory perception, gustatory sensation ♦ hangar queen ♦ laid up ♦ smell up, stink out, stink up ♦ taste, taste perception, taste sensation ♦ With a bad grace. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "WITH A BAD": ARNOLD ♦ DANTE ♦ LAOCOON ♦ VOLTAIRE. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Good Times with a Bad Girl (1967) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A tower with a bad day Anchor boards pulled out. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Another tower with a bad day Standing at the top (or what was the top). Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | For every person with a bad childhood who becomes a serial killer, there are a thousand who learn from that experience to be better parents to their own kids. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expressions using "WITH A BAD": go around with a bad crowd ♦ with a bad grace. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
help with a bad credit personal loan | 17 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "WITH A BAD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | vyskytovat se špatnì spoleènosti (go around with a bad crowd). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vonakodva tesz vmit (to do sg with a bad grace), nem szívesen tesz vmit (to dislike doing sg, to do sg with a bad grace), kedvetlenül tesz vmit (to do sg with a bad grace), ímmel-ámmal tesz vmit (to do sg with a bad grace). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ithway aay adbay.(various references) | |
Russian | неохотно (aversely, grudgingly, reluctantly, unwillingly, with a bad grace, with half a heart). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-h-i-t-w" | |
-3 letters: await, baith, habit, tabid, width. | |
-4 letters: adit, baht, bait, bath, bawd, data, dawt, dita, thaw, wadi, wait, what, whid, whit, with. | |
-5 letters: aah, aba, aha, aid, ait, awa, baa, bad, bah, bat, bid, bit, dab, dah, daw, dib, dit, had, hat, haw, hid, hit, tab, tad, taw, twa, wab, wad, wat, wha, wit. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-h-i-t-w" | |
+4 letters: withdrawable. | |
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