Sentence examples for basically bad from inspiring English sources

Are people basically bad or good?

All of them turned out to be basically bad ideas.

Once, I had a Catholic priest with an abdominal aortic aneurysm – basically, bad news.

The early Victorians had their own theory about what caused cholera, that it was "spread by miasmas," he says, "which are basically bad smells.

"What I think the S.& P. thing did was to hit a nerve that there's something basically bad going on, and it's hit the self-esteem of the United States, the psyche," he said.

— Timothy Geithner, the Treasury Secretary "In May, I warned, 'If we don't act boldly now, the markets will act for us very soon.' " — John Boehner, the Speaker of the House "What I think the S & P thing did was to hit a nerve that there's something basically bad going on, and it's hit the self-esteem of the United States, the psyche".

In the collective imagination of these analysts, the Pak-Afghan border is a rugged area where nothing grows, where people trade in nothing but arms and dreams of world domination; basically a bad place where bad people do bad things.

Racism and Islamophobia are either a figment of our imaginations or we are just basically mad, bad and dangerous.

That means that throwing the biodegradable cup into the trash is basically as bad as throwing a normal plastic cup in the trash.

If you think poverty is basically a bad thing and something needs to be done about it, then you have to live in a shed and forage for berries, otherwise you are a hypocritical champagne socialist.

He told me that he thought his problem was basically a "bad switch" in his neck where the tumor had been, a kind of loose wire sending false signals to his brain.