bad publicity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbadandpublicity
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bad
adjective
uk/bæd/us/bæd/
unpleasant and ...
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publicity
noun[U]
uk/pʌbˈlɪs.ə.ti/us/pʌbˈlɪs.ə.t̬i/
the activity of making certain that someone or something attracts a lot of interest or attention from many people, or the attention received as a result of ...
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(Definition ofbadandpublicityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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If it isbadpublicitythey will still do the same, but it can do incalculable harm.
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Badpublicityin press reports featuring those people would do the legislation an immense amount of harm.
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We must commend what football has been doing; it is unfortunate that it gets onlybadpublicity, as it has in the recent past.
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I hope that they are not hindered bybadpublicitywhich, quite frankly, is inaccurate and causes unnecessary anxiety.
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As has been said already, the profession has abadpublicity, and in more ways than one.
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With both institutions hurt by lawsuits andbadpublicity, the medical staff president invited me to form an ethics committee to prevent such problems in the future.
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Still, his underlying position was traditional: good publicity improved both the people and the state, whilebadpublicitydestroyed the system on which the public sphere was founded.
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The great supermarket chains are sensitive tobadpublicitywhen they are accused of exploiting workers in the third world.
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It is then that organisations suspected of being discriminatory start getting a little nervous and want to avoidbadpublicity.
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I made the direct accusation that thatbadpublicityhas been deliberately made for political motives.
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Thebadpublicitythey have caused is out of all proportion to their place in the industry.
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One problem uppermost in my mind is that ofbadpublicity.
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The vast majority of officers who continue to do their duties feel more keenly the effects ofbadpublicity.
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It isbadpublicityand does us harm.
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One cause is thebadpublicitythat the company consistently receives.
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It is not a nice thing to do if you want to avoidbadpublicity.
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They are not a profession; they cannot express their frustration, lack of morale, problems, difficulties overbadpublicityand so on.
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Retailers do not want thebadpublicityof people knowing that they sold cigarettes to young children.
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I know building societies are refusing mortgages on these properties, added tobadpublicitywe are unable to sell if we wished.
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This would mean that the kind ofbadpublicityof which he complained a short while ago would be repeated more frequently.
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