badname (pluralbad names)

1. Lack ofreverence oresteem; poorreputation.
   • 1847 March 30,Herman Melville,Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London:John Murray, […],→OCLC:

     The people of the southeasterly clusters—concerning whom, however, but little is known—have abad name as cannibals; and for that reason their hospitality is seldom taxed by the mariner.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seebad,‎name.

   Angina is abad name to give to your child.

• togive a bad name

• beadman

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