"give a bad name" meaning in English

See give a bad name in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: gives a bad name [present, singular, third-person], giving a bad name [participle, present], gave a bad name [past], given a bad name [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|give<,,gave,given> a bad name}} give a bad name (third-person singular simple present gives a bad name, present participle giving a bad name, simple past gave a bad name, past participle given a bad name)
  1. To cause people to lose respect, reverence or esteem for something or someone. Related terms: give a dog a bad name and hang him Translations (to lose respect for something/someone): donner une mauvaise réputation (French), perdere rispetto [feminine] (Italian), disprezzare (Italian), gi et dårlig rykte (Norwegian), ge ett dåligt rykte (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-give_a_bad_name-en-verb-ud9V9yGl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for give a bad name meaning in English (1.9kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gives a bad name",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "giving a bad name",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gave a bad name",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "given a bad name",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "give<,,gave,given> a bad name"
      },
      "expansion": "give a bad name (third-person singular simple present gives a bad name, present participle giving a bad name, simple past gave a bad name, past participle given a bad name)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1986, “You Give Love a Bad Name”, in Slippery When Wet, performed by Bon Jovi",
          "text": "Shot through the heart and you're to blame / Darling, you give love a bad name",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause people to lose respect, reverence or esteem for something or someone."
      ],
      "id": "en-give_a_bad_name-en-verb-ud9V9yGl",
      "links": [
        [
          "people",
          "people"
        ],
        [
          "respect",
          "respect"
        ],
        [
          "reverence",
          "reverence"
        ],
        [
          "esteem",
          "esteem"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "give a dog a bad name and hang him"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to lose respect for something/someone",
          "word": "donner une mauvaise réputation"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to lose respect for something/someone",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "perdere rispetto"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to lose respect for something/someone",
          "word": "disprezzare"
        },
        {
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "to lose respect for something/someone",
          "word": "gi et dårlig rykte"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to lose respect for something/someone",
          "word": "ge ett dåligt rykte"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "give a bad name"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gives a bad name",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "giving a bad name",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gave a bad name",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "given a bad name",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "give<,,gave,given> a bad name"
      },
      "expansion": "give a bad name (third-person singular simple present gives a bad name, present participle giving a bad name, simple past gave a bad name, past participle given a bad name)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "give a dog a bad name and hang him"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1986, “You Give Love a Bad Name”, in Slippery When Wet, performed by Bon Jovi",
          "text": "Shot through the heart and you're to blame / Darling, you give love a bad name",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause people to lose respect, reverence or esteem for something or someone."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "people",
          "people"
        ],
        [
          "respect",
          "respect"
        ],
        [
          "reverence",
          "reverence"
        ],
        [
          "esteem",
          "esteem"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to lose respect for something/someone",
      "word": "donner une mauvaise réputation"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to lose respect for something/someone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "perdere rispetto"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to lose respect for something/someone",
      "word": "disprezzare"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to lose respect for something/someone",
      "word": "gi et dårlig rykte"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to lose respect for something/someone",
      "word": "ge ett dåligt rykte"
    }
  ],
  "word": "give a bad name"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.