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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a bad picture" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an image that is of poor quality or does not meet expectations.
Example: "After reviewing the photos from the event, I realized that there was a bad picture of the main speaker that we should not use in the report."
Alternatives: "a poor image" or "a terrible photo".
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How can you take a bad picture?
"Seriously, you can't take a bad picture".
And Mr. Bowler had a bad picture.
Viewed through communal smoke a bad picture.
"He just doesn't take a bad picture".
"I think the whole thing is a bad picture.
"The picture's bad, though, don't get me wrong — that's a bad picture".
The government tell us it does to paint a bad picture of graffiti.
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Lawrence Kasdan's "Grand Canyon" is a hopelessly bad picture with an over-inflated sense of morality, but it is also 10 years old and commonly considered a disaster.
The historian David Starkey described it as an "appallingly bad picture", a sentiment which the art dealer Christopher Foley echoed.
The painting was uninspired — Foley thought it "a really bad picture" — and he said that while it might be a portrait of Jane Grey, he also believed that it was a later copy of a contemporary portrait.
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