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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a bad age" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a period in life or a historical time that is perceived negatively.
Example: "Many people believe that we are living in a bad age, marked by conflict and division."
Alternatives: "a difficult time" or "a troubling era".
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"It's not a bad age to be a photographer.
Nine years is a bad age for a boy to die.
My parents split up when I was 12, a bad age at which to witness the rupturing of your family, and it affected me badly.
You can take pills to have children, and suddenly 40 isn't such a bad age to start.
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There may not be someone "better out there" for you: I divorced when I was young and cute and again at midlife, which is a lot less cute, and this much I know: there really isn't a good or bad age to be divorced.
Vivid, stirring and entirely predictable, "Made in Dagenham" is a grown-up feel-good movie plunked into a feel-bad age.
It might sound like something lifted from the pages of a bad space-age fantasy, but cryonics advocates insist the possibility of eternal life is getting ever closer.
As for the 99-pound musical that's at the center of this muscle-bound circus — the one about the starry-eyed son of Charlemagne who has a bad case of a Middle Ages identity crisis — it's there, too, if you choose to look for it.
We doubt Norris, a man of few words but many roundhouse kicks, would trade in on his persona as a bad ass to become an aging action star cliche.
Farrell reads to us from her teen-age diaries--a bad idea.
His current looks are doing a bad job of aging gracefully.
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