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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a bad dog" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a dog that exhibits undesirable behavior or actions.
Example: "After chewing up the furniture, I had to admit that he was a bad dog."
Alternatives: "a naughty dog" or "a misbehaving dog."
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There's hardly ever a bad dog.
But I hated being the owner of a bad dog.
"You a bad dog," she sang at the animal.
Perhaps he wasn't such a bad dog after all.
"Nipper's a bad dog," Cherry Sue reported, pulling out her pacifier.
One of the first sentences I learned was "Cindy was a bad dog".
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In addition to my academic pursuits, I am a decent fiddler, a half decent jeweler, and a pretty bad dog trainer.
At work he feuds with a big bad dog and gets grief for minor infringements of the post code; at other times he hangs out with similarly coasting hipsters - performance poets and zine monkeys, mostly - and draws cute little cartoon strips about baby Hindu gods.
And a very bad dog owner problem.
"That was the last time I took her to the opera," said Mr. Kihn, whose new memoir, "Bad Dog: A Love Story," offers a wry tale of canine rehabilitation.
There are accounts of bad dogs cured, like "Bad Dog: A Love Story," by Martin Kihn; of good dogs loved, as in Jill Abramson's "The Puppy Diaries"; of strange dogs made whole and wild dogs made docile; of love lives altered by loving dogs, as in Justine van der Leun's "Marcus of Umbria: What an Italian Dog Taught an American Girl About Love".
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