How to Use in a bad light in a Sentence

in a bad light

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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 | Jgoodman@al.com, 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
  • Manzo reprimanded Glanville, saying that her comments were appalling and put American women in a bad light.
    — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Overall numbers on recidivist crimes are hard to establish because the Russian government restricts the release of any public information that puts the war in a bad light.
    — Milana Mazaeva, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • At that time, Trump complained frequently about Milley, a reaction to anecdotes in books and news articles that cast Trump in a bad light and described Milley as defending democracy from the then-president’s darker impulses.
    — Devlin Barrett, Josh Dawsey and Carol D. Leonnig, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2023
  • At that time, Trump complained frequently about Milley, a reaction to anecdotes in books and news articles that cast Trump in a bad light and described Milley as defending democracy from the then-president’s darker impulses.
    — Devlin Barrett, Josh Dawsey and Carol D. Leonnig, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2023
  • The doctor spoke on the condition of anonymity because medical personnel have been threatened by commanders for releasing information showing them in a bad light.
    — Hafiz Haroun, Washington Post, 12 May 2023

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