bad decision
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2.4
- noun
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mala decisión
- It was a bad decision to invest all my savings in that failing company.
- make a bad decision
I've lost millions on just bad decisions or bad investments.
- I've lost millions on just bad decisions or bad investments.
- And bad mental health means bad decisions across a variety of things.
- They're collapsing, they're losing money, they're making really bad decisions about COVID.
- When you make bad decisions, you know, bad things happen.
- Those are all micro decisions that led to a really bad decision, a really bad outcome.
- And so I, I made a bad decision in retrospect.
- And if I make the bad decision, I'm going to ruin this.
- So the connection between exhaustion, sleep deprivation, etcetera and bad decisions is huge.
- Drugs or alcohol, right, will make you make bad decisions.
- And I think it was a bad decision to shut it down the way they shut it down.
- Yeah, and and I've made some bad decisions, but so I don't know.
Examples
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Don't blame your bad decisions on your team, Michael.
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Once you make such a bad decision, it is very difficult to back away from it.
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And bad mental health means bad decisions across a variety of things.
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And when you do make bad decisions, it's on you anyway.
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And I think it was a bad decision to shut it down the way they shut it down.
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It's never a bad decision to take care of yourself, or your marriage.
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But it also seems that there were a lot of bad decisions along the way.
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Those are all micro decisions that led to a really bad decision, a really bad outcome.
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I've made some bad decisions in my life.
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When a business makes a bad decision, it loses money or goes bankrupt.
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Synonyms
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2.3
A choice or plan that will probably cause problems
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3.5
A choice that is not wise and causes problems
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4.2
A quick choice made without thinking that often causes problems
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2.8
A careless, foolish error that causes problems
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5.2
A decision made quickly without careful thought
A very foolish decision that shows little thought
How Bad
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a choice that is poor or unwise' is directly and compositionally derived from combining the adjective 'bad' with the noun 'decision', following a basic adjective+noun pattern. This construction is common across languages and in English, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The phrase bad decision gives a clear image: imagine you must choose a path and you make the decision to take the one marked bad, which leads to trouble. So a bad decision is a choice that causes 'bad results' or 'problems'.