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The phrase "a bad old" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be an attempt to describe something negative associated with age or something that is both bad and old, but it lacks clarity and proper structure.
Example: "He was known for his bad old habits that never seemed to change."
Alternatives: "a bad habit" or "an old problem".
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A bad old movie keeps the human idea alive in two robots.
The fruit on the label was such a bad old joke, they'd ceased to even notice it.
When her boyfriend, Ronnie (the increasingly credible Justin Timberlake), leaves for the Army, Rae falls into a bad old pattern.
However many new justifications are invented for the government to pick winners, and coddle losers, it will remain a bad old idea.
A play dealing with syphilis on top of one dealing with a wife's abandonment of her family sealed Ibsen's reputation as a Bad Old Man, but progressive theatres in England and all across the Continent began putting on his plays.
In place of a bad old regime run by grasping and incompetent landlords, Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam and his colleagues have installed a bad new regime run by doctrinaire and incompetent soldiers.
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I did not want to marry a bad, older man, and no single men came to me".
That gang includes a bad older brother, Angelo, and a good younger one, Paulie (Conor Dubin), who as the story begins are both waiters in a neighborhood restaurant.
During the election, he promised a break with bad old ways.
But that's simply a lie the bad old Scarcity Demon tells to get you to quit.
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