The phrase "a bad value" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing something that is not acceptable, useful, or appropriate in a given context, such as programming, economics, or personal opinions.
Example: "The calculation returned a bad value, which caused the entire report to be inaccurate."
Alternatives: "an incorrect value" or "a poor value".
Yes, it's expensive, but not a bad value.
Not a bad value, perhaps, compared with a fine aged Bordeaux, but still not cheap.
He generally considers these bonuses a bad value, and he is no fan of nursing home riders, either.
Gardiner said May had a tricky decision to make over Hinkley, given that it was a bad value deal, but trade with China is crucial as Britain negotiates its departure from the EU.
We gave two-and-a-half stars to the other '94, a gran reserva from Protos, which was considerably more expensive at $75, yet not a bad value compared with what many people are willing to pay for new California cabernets or Bordeaux.
If the user chooses a bad value for d, then convergence can be slow.
At market extremes, it is often worth analyzing what has to be true for a given investment to be a good, or bad, value.
Is the BBC, raising £3.6bn or so a year, hugely bad value?
Mr Coates, a former managing director of Waterstone's, a chain of book stores, also says that though spending on libraries is up, visits have declined by 21% and numbers of books borrowed by 35% in the last ten years, making a once public-spirited enterprise bad value for public money.
But keep things in perspective: you may not end up selling an extra 150,000 albums if you win, as used to happen, but no label we spoke to thinks it's bad value as a promotional exercise (and especially not since HMV was dropped as an official partner and an excessive marketing charge of around £4,000 per album was cancelled).
"It's a Catch-22, which makes it utterly unsurprising that they offer such bad value," says Nicholas Barr, an economist at the London School of Economics.
