2. Bad food or water; injurious to health, hurtful, dangerous, pernicious.
3. Bad company; depraved, wicked, vicious.
4. Bad fit (as of a shoe); causing inconvenience, displeasure, or pain.
5. Bad smell; unpleasant, offensive, disagreeable, troublesome, painful.
6. “Bad blood”; harsh, angry feeling.
7. In bad health; suffering from disease or injury, (in pain).
8. “To the bad”; to ruin, in deficit.
9. “In bad” (slang); spoken of a man who has made trouble for himself and others.
[9] In passing, it might be pertinent to consider the question as to whether the word “bad” is synonymous with ‘that which disappoints expectation.’ One might ask, for example, “Do not chronic pessimists literally expect catastrophe?” Here, as elsewhere, we must not be deceived by a trick of speech. For he who says, “I expect disaster,” is unwittingly making an equivocal statement. The man who makes such a remark cannot be implying that his whole body, with its numerous action-patterns, is completely set to receive the stimulus that will demolish his equilibrium. Rather should we infer from this utterance that he is at least partly prepared to resist it, partly to rejoice at the incident discomfiture to others, with the hope thereby of making his own troubles dwindle by comparison, and perhaps also partly anticipating the relief that will come when the suspense of waiting is over. None of these interpretations disallow the formulation of any of the above classes of “bad.” To be sure, there are certain abnormal types, like the sadist and the masochist, to whom pain is an erotic stimulus, but even so, their expectations are always directed to that particular element of the situation which, by affording an outgoing reaction, is for them a “good.”