Sentence examples for was merely bad from inspiring English sources

"I used to think that Dan Brown was merely bad.

Questions piled up faster than answers, and when, through Philip's negligence, Rachel plunged to her death off a tottery bridgeway, nobody in our car could say whether she was merely bad news, or truly bad.

Asked whether he believed the scoring was merely bad, or whether something more nefarious was going on, Walsh paused for a moment and said, "I don't know.

If traffic is merely bad, as usual, the next step is to make the area a little more glamorous.

He's merely bad and therefore, anything he does is automatically charming within the context of this film.

That means that it cannot be enough to investigate individual acts by individual officers, as if they were merely bad apples.

He will offer the business judgment rule, a cornerstone of Delaware corporate law, to argue that these were merely bad business decisions, which cannot create liability.

It is also not clear what is merely bad advice, what is genius advice, or what is no advice at all.

Is it because they are working at the far edges of existing notions, or because they are merely bad writers, or because they are actually talking nonsense?

Moreover, much depends on what's considered to be "due regard": is merely bad science "metaphysics"?

They hope for what Ms Regan calls "a new normal" that is merely bad, rather than hideous.