"bad gesture" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a physical action or movement done to express feelings of anger, hatred, or disrespect. For example, "John's grimace was a bad gesture intended to humiliate his opponent."
Any appeal for government arts funding would now likely have to be made under the guise of nationalism, a bad-faith gesture she does not want to make.
Was James's gesture good, bad, fake or authentic?
Her face and her calm delivery made us trust her, even up to the last words: "So listen, and think about this … and whether it's nothing but a gesture of bad faith".
Second, we only analyzed gestures during clauses expressing ideas of a single valence: mixed valence clauses like "you take the good with the bad" were excluded, so gesture patterns cannot be explained as spatializing ideas of contrasting valence within a clause.
In a universe of 24-hour exposure in which every gesture, good or bad, every deed, good or bad, is played again and again and again, a transgression can be bad for the game but great for the N.B.A.
"If you think this is bad," she told me, gesturing at the area surrounding Check Center, where drug dealers hung out in front of the store and bullet holes riddled the storefront, "you should see where I live.
It can snap into place through a bad dream or a misunderstood gesture.
You never know when a look, the wrong gesture, someone's bad trip can wind up finishing you off".
It would not be the first time that psychological aid was regarded by non-Western recipients as a kind gesture but a bad fit.
Stars and Stripes, a strange, patriotic assemblage of mascarpone, pomegranate and grape panna cotta, is a nice gesture but a bad dessert, messy and disorganized.
