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Bad debt

noun

A debt that is unlikely to be repaid.

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"Bad debt" Quotes from Famous Books

... a bad debt. But he has a great soul. And don't prevaricate, Susan. Where have you been?" Mr. Hadley ...

— The Highwayman • H.C. Bailey

... thought of the place as something like the region of a "bad debt,"—where a portion of his wealth had been wrecked. Some knew it as the hated spot where they had suffered the loss of all their fortune; but others there were, who, untouched by the thought of material gain or loss, knew it as the scene of the wreck of ...

— Under the Waves - Diving in Deep Waters • R M Ballantyne

... waved them away with a bitter levity which belonged to the same period. His view of his obligations was strictly chronological, and in taking it he counted, like the poet, only happy hours. The bad debt and the bad season went consistently together to oblivion; the sun of to-day's remarkable receipts could not be expected ...

— The Path of a Star • Mrs. Everard Cotes (AKA Sara Jeannette Duncan)

... had been justly and severely punished: whether I was ever to be rewarded for my subsequent honesty still remained to be proved; but I knew very well that most people would have written off such a reward as a bad debt. ...

— Japhet, In Search Of A Father • Frederick Marryat

... a mistake in her purchase of the property in Mullen Lane, it was because she had been badly advised, if not actually cheated, by the sly old fellow who had for years owned the property which he had taken for a bad debt. ...

— Janice Day, The Young Homemaker • Helen Beecher Long