bad habit

collocation in English

meaningsofbadandhabit

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bad
adjective
uk
/bæd/us
/bæd/
unpleasant and ...
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habit
noun
uk
/ˈhæb.ɪt/us
/ˈhæb.ɪt/
something that you do often and regularly, sometimes without knowing that you are ...
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(Definition ofbadandhabitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbad habit

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I started thebadhabit.
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Or should abadhabitlike cigarette smoking count against a patient receiving scarce resources or expensive procedures?
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This is a thoroughlybadhabit.
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Now thebadhabitbegins again.
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This is becoming abadhabit.
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It would stop a verybadhabit.
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Thatbadhabitis acquired early.
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That is a verybadhabit.
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They have now fathered abadhabit.
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Such long questions are becoming abadhabit.
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It is abadhabitinto which we have fallen.
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I feel that this is a verybadhabit.
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Sometimes it is merely an old, cumbersome,badhabit.
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It is abadhabitto quote oneself.
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That would be getting into a verybadhabit.
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How does one cure an omnibus of abadhabit?
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That is abadhabit, but it has been done.
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They are an old habit, abadhabit, and abadhabitwhich has gone a long way to becoming tradition.
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I have abadhabit, shared perhaps with some others, of starting to read books from the back to the front.
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It is generally thought that by doing that one will cure thebadhabitin question.
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Deficit financing has always been abadhabitfor individuals and for governments.
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We want to try to break the greengrocer of thisbadhabit.
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We have got into abadhabitof expecting a pay rise every year.
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It needs a hearty shock to enable us to shake off thatbadhabit.
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