The phrase "a bad past" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone's previous experiences or history that are negative or undesirable.
Example: "Despite her success now, she often reflects on her bad past and the challenges she overcame."
Alternatives: "troubled history" or "difficult past".
And he may have had a bad past.
"He's perceived as having a bad past," said Nationals catcher Paul Lo Duca, a former Met.
'I've read it so many times I've started to believe it.' We give her points for overcoming a bad past after running away with a heroin addict at 16. Craig Murray Former ambassador Britain is a better place now that Craig Murray has returned.
In "Cécile," an 1887 novel about a good woman trying in vain to bury a bad past, a group of tourists in the Harz mountains are taken around a medieval castle; unnerved by a visitor's embarrassment that there's not much to look at, the tour guide "rapidly resumed his lecture in the hope of compensating by narrative skill for the lack of visible items of interest".
A comment that could reflect a bad past experience with updates is: "I just know as soon as this update is installed, I'm going to be greeted with a whole bunch of problems I didn't have before.
Do you have a bad past with the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) community?
Too serious to be proclaimed sclerotic, it seems that the Libyan oil slick in his political gulf has blurred his memories, transforming him into a blind-minded president with a new political doctrine and new political friends with a very bad past.
It has been an incredibly bad past few years for these schools which have faced numerous accusations of deception and fraudulent behavior.
This character, he's got a really dirty bad past, but he's trying to become good," he explained.
A minority cited bad past experiences and little faith in conventional medicine.
Storm Shadow had to show his character: cynical and independent and has some sort of bad past -- and a secret between Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow.
