bad news

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Noun

bad news (uncountable)

1. News of unpleasant, unfortunate or sad events.
   • 2008 August 5, Alex Perry, “Good News: Gorillas Thrive”, in Time:

     One of the rules of journalism is that news from Africa is always bad news.

   • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Aylesbury (2009)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 61:

     The mainstream media hones in on bad news stories where UK railways are concerned, yet gives scant attention to the many items of good news emerging from the network.

2. (idiomatic) An irritating, troublesome or harmful object, situation or individual.

   Synonym: bad business

   • 2008 January 12, Lynda Johnson, “Nude Photos: Britney Spears 5150 Leads to Paparazzi Picture Sale”, in National Ledger, retrieved 10 Oct. 2008:

     Many are warning Spears that he is bad news and is trying to use her.

Antonyms

• good news

Derived terms

• bad news travels fast

Translations

news of unpleasant, unfortunate or sad events

• Armenian: գույժ (hy) (guyž)
• Asturian: males noticies f pl
• Basque: berri txarrak
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 壞消息／坏消息 (huài xiāoxi)

• Dutch: slecht nieuws n, jobstijding (nl) c, onheilsbericht n, onheilsmare, onheilstijding (nl) c
• Finnish: huonot uutiset pl
• French: mauvaises nouvelles f pl
• German: schlechte Nachrichten f pl, Hiobsbotschaft (de) f, schlechte Neuigkeiten f pl
• Hungarian: rossz hír
• Italian: brutta notizia f, cattiva notizia f
• Japanese: 悪いニュース (warui nyūsu)
• Kazakh: жаманат (jamanat)
• Polish: złe wieści pl, zła wiadomość f
• Portuguese: má notícia f
• Russian: плохи́е но́вости f pl (ploxíje nóvosti), плоха́я но́вость f (ploxája nóvostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: лоше вести f pl, loše vesti f pl
• Sicilian: malanova (scn) f
• Spanish: malas noticias f pl
• Vietnamese: tin buồn (vi), tin dữ (vi)

irritating, troublesome of harmful thing, situation or person

• Dutch: slecht nieuws
• French: casse-pied (fr), emmerdeur (fr), emmerdement (fr), fouteur de merde (fr)
• German: Störenfried (de) m
• Spanish: embrollón m, camorrista m

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• Central Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} خەبەری ناخۆش (xeberî naxoş)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} kötü haber (tr)

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