wear as a badge of honor

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wear as a badge of honor (third-person singular simple present wears as a badge of honor, present participle wearing as a badge of honor, simple past wore as a badge of honor, past participle worn as a badge of honor)

  1. (transitive) Defiantly reinterpret (something said) to be negative about oneself as positive.
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