The phrase "a bad robbery" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a robbery that was poorly executed or resulted in negative consequences for the perpetrators or victims.
Example: "The police reported that it was a bad robbery, as the thieves left empty-handed and were quickly apprehended."
Alternatives: "a failed robbery" or "a botched robbery".
Mr. Gogel told one of the drug agency informers that the murders could be made to resemble an ordinary street crime, "like a bad robbery or anything, you know," the indictment says.
They planned to make the murder "look like a bad robbery," and disguise themselves using "highly sophisticated latex face masks" that, according to the prosecutors, "can make the wearer appear to be of another race".
'Not like now with all that bloody Aids and crap.' She had a real giggle remembering all her fiancés (Bing Crosby's son, Gary; a sweet stall-holder from Leather Lane; this jazz musician or that) and looked lost when remembering the bad robbery, just after Ronnie's trial for murder (he was acquitted), when all those engagement rings got stolen.
Her wild-girl misadventures in New Orleans, involving a hot day, a bad wig, a brazen robbery and a narcissistic poet-boy named Sandy, kick off "Collected Stories," and Nora's defiant spirit presides over the entire book.
Fifteen years ago, while a student at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, he made a bad choice and joined a robbery on Long Island.
Most robbers get only a few hundred dollars, but when you put in so little effort, that's not a bad return.The low cost of robberies to the banks may be one reason why their number has soared in New York this year.
You just had a couple of players make a bad decision.' " Green implied that Whittler had not participated in planning the robbery.
For him, thieving is "a chest-seizing nightmare," a bad dream that came true more than two years ago, when, en route to commit a robbery with Tariq, Alfredo began hyperventilating and had to be let out of the car.
A murder, a robbery, a rape.
