bad apple
nounEtymology
From the proverb “one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch” (or a variant thereof).
Definitions
A person who is not wholesome, honest, or trustworthy, especially one who has an adverse…
A person who is not wholesome, honest, or trustworthy, especially one who has an adverse influence on others.
- Near-synonym: bad egg
- There is one bad apple, and that is Katie, the beautiful prostitute with whom Catcher Bruce is in love. Unlike the cliche harlot of fiction, she is as short of compassion as Bruce is of IQ.
- While most union leaders are people of integrity, there are still bad apples.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for bad apple. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA