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Too bad   /tu bæd/   Listen
Too bad

adjective
1.
Deserving regret.  Synonym: regrettable.  "It's regrettable that she didn't go to college" , "It's too bad he had no feeling himself for church"






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"Too bad" Quotes from Famous Books



... uncle, heartily. "Too bad you couldn't have asked an old fellow like me to go along," he continued, making ...
— Dave Porter and His Double - The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune • Edward Stratemeyer

... on the doorstep now, shivering in the chilly dark. "One Sunday night," Cissy said, "Georgie took to yelling, and went all stiff and purple, and we couldn't make out what ailed him. Only that his throat hurt too bad to swallow; so Maw tied up his topknot so tight it near pulled it out: that was to lift his palate, because dropped palates make ...
— Across the Fruited Plain • Florence Crannell Means

... the captain leaning from his saddle. "You're the alfiredest sharp youngster I've ever come up with. Oh, it's too bad that you have to waste your talents in a city! Too bad, too bad! You ought to be out here on the plains and in the mountains where one's ...
— The Pony Rider Boys with the Texas Rangers • Frank Gee Patchin

... sitting down in the middle chair] It's too bad. No: I cant forgive him, Lesbia, really. A man of Reginald's age, with a young wife—the best of girls, and as pretty as she can be—to go off with a common ...
— Getting Married • George Bernard Shaw

... operators sitting with folded arms at their motionless projectors, and inquired as to the cause of their inaction. In response, the man addressed simply pointed to the sky, which was of a pure blue. "Yes," muttered Mr. Smith, "a cloudless sky! That's too bad, but what's to be done? Shall we produce rain? That we might do, but is it of any use? What we need is clouds, not rain. Go," said he, addressing the head engineer, "go see Mr. Samuel Mark, of the meteorological division of the scientific department, and tell him for ...
— In the Year 2889 • Jules Verne and Michel Verne


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