bad news

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Noun

bad news (uncountable)

News of unpleasant, unfortunate or sad events.
- 2008, Alex Perry, "Good News: Gorillas Thrive," Time, 5 Aug.,
  One of the rules of journalism is that news from Africa is always bad news.
(idiomatic) An irritating, troublesome or harmful person, situation or thing.
- 2008, Lynda Johnson, "Nude Photos: Britney Spears 5150 Leads to Paparazzi Picture Sale," National Ledger, 12 Jan. (retrieved 10 Oct. 2008),
  Many are warning Spears that he is bad news and is trying to use her.

Synonyms

(irritating, troublesome,or harmful person, situation, or thing): troublemaker

Antonyms

good news

Translations

news of unpleasant, unfortunate or sad events

Armenian: գույժ (hy) (guyž)
Basque: berri txarrak
Chinese:
Mandarin: 壞消息, 坏消息 (huài xiāoxi)
Dutch: slecht nieuws n, jobstijding (nl) c, onheilsbericht n, onheilsmare, onheilstijding c
Finnish: huonot uutiset pl
French: mauvaises nouvelles f pl
German: schlechte Nachrichten f pl, Hiobsbotschaft (de) f, schlechte Neuigkeiten f pl
Hungarian: rossz hír

Italian: brutta notizia f, cattiva notizia f
Japanese: 悪いニュース (warui nyūsu)
Kazakh: жаманат (jamanat)
Portuguese: má notícia f
Russian: плохи́е но́вости f pl (ploxíje nóvosti), плоха́я но́вость f (ploxája nóvostʹ)
Serbo-Croatian: лоше вести f pl, loše vesti f pl
Sicilian: malanova (scn) f
Spanish: malas noticias f pl
Vietnamese: tin buồn (vi), tin dữ (vi)

irritating person

Dutch: slecht nieuws
French: casse-pied (fr), emmerdeur (fr), emmerdement (fr), fouteur de merde (fr)

German: Störenfried (de) m
Spanish: embrollón m, camorrista m

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Central Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} خه‌به‌ری ناخۆش‎ (xeberî naxoş)

Turkish: ^{(please verify)} kötü haber (tr)

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