Sentence examples for patently bad from inspiring English sources

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"What I cannot understand — and what nobody should condone — is the blatant attempt in some quarters to frighten the American people and their representatives in Congress into panicky support of patently bad policy.

By its nature, a moral system does not leave patently bad action as morally permissible.

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Answering most questions in the film with a burst of automatic-weapon fire, Creevy patently has a bad case of US-style gun love.

Mauldin: Well this was all over and the whole CDO, the whole subprime mess, and the monolines were insuring these CDOs that were patently going, there was bad stuff in them.

[Patently Apple via Mac Rumors].

The M.T.A. at first rejected both, citing a rule approved by its board in 1997 that let the agency ban ads that were "sexually suggestive," "patently offensive, improper or in bad taste" or "directly adverse to the commercial or administrative interests of the M.T.A".

The government had made it clear that, at that point in the process, there was no such thing as a bad idea – not even those that were patently, gleefully daring it to call them out as such.

Barely any polling-stations got a results-sheet, on which the officials and the party agents are supposed to record the number of votes cast for each party; presumably these were being filled in elsewhere.Things were particularly bad in the oil-rich Delta region, where patently false 95% turn-outs were being recorded in some areas.

I should feel bad for causing them to waste minutes of their patently wretched lives.

He was also convinced that spices were bad for you, which is not only not in line with Paleo philosophy, it's also patently untrue.

Patently untrue.

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