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"bad role models" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone whose example is poor for others to follow. For example, "The celebrity culture of today is filled with bad role models that children shouldn't imitate."
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Or people might say they're bad role models.
Is this why we speak of them as, potentially, good or bad role models?
And I remembered back in the Eighties, when I thought the supermodels were bad role models.
Not bad role models some might say - independent women who have good careers.
Still, the related complaint, that the characters are bad role models, misses the point, from my perspective.
"With all the bad role models out there in the news, this is a turn for the better, " she said.
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Not a bad role model for children.
It makes him a bad role model".
You are not a bad role model.
Janet Street-Porter has called her a bad role model.
Is she a bad role model to young women?
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