Sentence examples for bad old man from inspiring English sources
The phrase "bad old man" is correct and usable in written English
You can use this phrase to describe an elderly man with a negative or unpleasant personality, such as, "Jim was a bad old man who was always grumbling about something."
A play dealing with syphilis on top of one dealing with a wife's abandonment of her family sealed Ibsen's reputation as a Bad Old Man, but progressive theatres in England and all across the Continent began putting on his plays.
Consider the little girl who was playing in a bed of flowers one day and was kidnapped to the underworld to be bride to a really bad old man.
I did not want to marry a bad, older man, and no single men came to me".
(Greg was the only person ready to tell Hemingway how bad "The Old Man and the Sea" really was: "As sickly a bucket of sentimental slop as was ever scrubbed off a barroom floor").
There was a bad-tempered old man on the other side of the ward who was annoying the doctors and nurses with his incessant demands.
She lived through the bad old days, when men were men and nuns were nuts ("I hate God! I grew up Catholic"), so anyone who's ever had the stuffing knocked out of him by a Sister of Charity can empathize.
"Not bad for an old man".
Photograph: Al Bello / Getty Images 8.12pm BST Not bad for an old man.
"Not bad for an old man," he joked, rolling his hips.
Things are so bad that the old man asks his wife to help him commit suicide.
As the fellow was carried off on a stretcher, Pop grinned at him and said, 'Not bad for an old man, eh?' Chook said he would have killed for Brian Clay after that.
