How to Use in a bad light in a Sentence

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• Some negativities could rub off on you and place you in a bad light.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 2 June 2021
• Her job: monitoring Western broadcasts to cherry-pick news that showed the West in a bad light to air on the network’s shows.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• Some tabloid websites, such as the Daily Mail, posted up to a dozen different stories per day, many of them depicting Meghan in a bad light.
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2021
• Ever since that night in Birmingham, however, there have been people trying to paint Johnson in a bad light.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 14 June 2020
• Wallen, of course, is making a comeback from a 2021 N-word storm that cast country music in a bad light and put the singer’s superstar trajectory in jeopardy.
  — Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Apr. 2022
• Stories were planted with newspaper and television outlets to put the Panthers and their supporters in a bad light.
  — Zoe Guy, Marie Claire, 12 Feb. 2021
• The decision to spend the money as down payments on vacation homes is irrelevant to the case, Bolden wrote, and would only serve to paint Mosby in a bad light to jurors.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2022
• No longer would the Mets employ executives who cast the organization in a bad light with their poor behavior.
  — Jerry Beach, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• In practice, the ban on talking to journalists is often used to stifle information that could paint the department in a bad light, experts say.
  — Libor Jany, Star Tribune, 8 Jan. 2021
• Private texts without context can frame anyone in a bad light, and our kneejerk reaction is to believe the accuser, especially in the #MeToo era.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 June 2021
• What came out was information that cast Fox News in a bad light, with some hosts disparaging their guests and acknowledging that the election conspiracy theories were off base.
  — Amanda Terkel, NBC News, 14 Apr. 2023
• Accurate grass-roots reports, especially those that cast the regime in a bad light, rarely penetrate up to policymakers.
  — Robert Mahoney, CNN, 26 Apr. 2022
• Republican members of Congress in particular tried painting President Joe Biden in a bad light.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024