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Not bad   /nɑt bæd/   Listen
Not bad

adjective
1.
Very good.  Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell.  "A neat sports car" , "Had a great time at the party" , "You look simply smashing"






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"Not bad" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the United States Patent System. After I have explained to him the operation of the Patent Law on some particular situation, Dr. Marchare frequently begins to mutter to himself as if I were no longer in the same room with him, and I find this most discouraging. As if this were not bad enough, many of Dr. Marchare's scientists have acquired ...
— The Professional Approach • Charles Leonard Harness

... that wouldn't go down badly either. Do you remember a great bowl of strawberries and cream with a huge ice in it, that you had the day before you left school, after that hot bike ride to Leamington? Not bad, was it? ...
— A Student in Arms - Second Series • Donald Hankey

... and two hours P.M. bringing up canoe, dragging half way, George carrying rest. Started on at 4. Alternate pools and rapids. Rapids not bad—go up by dragging and tracking. ...
— A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador • Mina Benson Hubbard (Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard, Junior)

... to the circus. He was not much surprised at anything he saw there, or he pretended not to be. The acrobatics on horseback—"Well, not bad, but after all—!" The tiger—"I thought tigers were much bigger!" Besides, his big, heavy head seemed preoccupied with other thoughts, and he paid little attention to the women riders who were doing ...
— Look Back on Happiness • Knut Hamsun

... been told by his father and mother not to make friends with any Wolf. But when this Wolf called him "Great Lion," he said to himself: "This Wolf is not bad. This Wolf is not like other Wolves." So he took the Wolf to the den where he lived with his ...
— More Jataka Tales • Re-told by Ellen C. Babbitt


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