Sentence examples for merely a bad from inspiring English sources

AT FIRST it was merely a bad idea.

Ms Wortman said she thought it was merely a "bad tube".

Instead, in his assessment, it's merely a bad play with songs.

If true, it would suggest that Bush was not merely a bad man or a bad president, but an evil genius on a shocking scale.

Worse is when economics is debated like metaphysics, as if the reality of a system is merely a bad example of the ideal.

He must have sensed that Ann's love for him was gone; he was hoping to wait it out, or lure it home, or, best of all, to wake one morning and discover that this time had been merely a bad dream.

But merely being a bad hat isn't enough, it seems: he has to be extensively demonised before meriting the treatment, so maybe Libya's mad, bad colonel just hasn't been in anyone's sights for long enough.

Omar Cook, who was outscored by Jason Williams, 26-6, in the battle of the point guards, tried to say he and his teammates had merely played a bad game, but their coach, Mike Jarvis, did not encourage that line of negative thinking.

But in the mark of a good team merely having a bad day — rather than a not-as-good-as-we-thought team having a bad year, like the Cowboys — the Steelers did just enough to win.

Is he merely having a bad season?

That he then opted to stick, at all costs, to the discredited figure of Osborne as shadow chancellor merely made a bad situation much, much worse.