Sentence examples for bad citizen from inspiring English sources

If someone's a bad citizen, then she must be a bad neighbor, too.

DeLillo scoffed at the charge – as any writer worth his salt would – and instead countered: "Being called a bad citizen is a compliment to a novelist".

In terms that resonate with today's news, DeLillo responded to Will's assertion that his novel was "an act of literary vandalism and bad citizenship": Being called a "bad citizen" is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind.

Don DeLillo wrote in the New Yorker in 1997 about a stinging review of his novel Libra, in which he was labelled a "bad citizen" for writing such a book.

And so, laying down my pen, I took being a bad citizen a literal step further and moved off the path in O'Connell Street and went against the strong current of government compliance.

The Bahraini officials behind his arrest said "bad things" about the Shia Muslim religion, he said, and called him a "bad citizen, disloyal to his country".

We ought to be bad citizens.

"If not, he calls them bad citizens.

In that sense, if we're bad citizens, we're doing our job.

"They're really bad citizens," Mr. Biederman said in an interview on Monday.

Her Uncle Mike finds, in the counterculture of the 1970s, an escape from the petty scuffles of his family, all of them "bad citizens.