The phrase "a bad purpose" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an intention or goal that is morally wrong or harmful.
Example: "His actions were driven by a bad purpose, leading to negative consequences for everyone involved."
Alternatives: "an ill intent" or "a malicious aim".
He told me that he was "grieved that good science, which has helped many people overcome depression, may have been used for such a bad purpose as torture".
Mr. Cantor said the Constitution contained "no requirement that anyone allow someone to come into their home, for a good or a bad purpose".
"Casey is careful to say you shouldn't be able to have a bad purpose," she said.
Abuse, on the other hand, is improper usage or treatment for a bad purpose.
But when used in a criminal statute it generally means an act done with a bad purpose...We believe that a 'bad purpose' assumes even more than its usual importance in a criminal prosecution based upon the bare utterance of words".
I also realized that I if I truly had a purpose, making people laugh is not such a bad purpose to have in life.
It must also prove that the defendant had a "bad faith purpose to either harm the United States or to aid a foreign government". So held the district court in the recent prosecution of two officials with the American-Israel Public affairulingmithat ("AIPAcontributedng toatheontributed to the government's decision to dismiss the case.
"It will cover up their bad purpose, and they might get promoted," he said.
At least two courts have specifically approved jury instructions essentially stating that an act of infringement done "willfully" means an act voluntarily and purposely done with specific intent to do that which the law forbids, that is to say, with bad purpose either to disobey or disregard the law.
Similarly, though Lady Macbeth is evil, "[s]he is only wicked to gain a great end" and it is only her "inexorable self-will" that prevents her being diverted from her "bad purpose" which masks her "natural affections"; whereas Goneril and Regan, in King Lear, "excite our loathing and abhorrence" as Lady Macbeth does not.
You can imagine how these could be used for bad purposes, such as attaching a firework to the drone or deciding to swarm an aircraft with them.
