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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



... complain on that score. But to have an interloping she-doctor take a family I've attended ten years, out of my hands, and to hear the hodge-podge gabble about physiological laws, and woman's rights, and no taxation without representation, they learn from her—well, it's too bad!" ...
— The Ghost • William. D. O'Connor

... "have you been alone all this time? It is quite too bad! I made sure that I should hear the carriage drive up, and at least run out and give you a welcome, but somehow I didn't; and people came so fast and thick that I couldn't get a chance to glance at the clock." She kissed Candace, ...
— A Little Country Girl • Susan Coolidge

... authorities and people of this famed inland sea, that the English had a religion, and cared for its prosperity. Up to the time I left the Barbary coast, Dr. Tomlinson had neither visited Tunis nor Tripoli, though he had been resident at Malta some three years. This is too bad; and it is quite clear the Bishop does not understand the object of his mission in the Mediterranean. He ought to have shown himself at once in all Barbary; he then might have annihilated this monstrous error, propagated by Romish priests, that the ...
— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson

... they'd miss their big Yellowstone trip, and we two Elks would be on night and day duty, with the major. The doctor said that he would be out of danger in five days. By that time the message would be long overdue. It was too bad. We had tried ...
— Pluck on the Long Trail - Boy Scouts in the Rockies • Edwin L. Sabin

... "No," said Kitty, "it's too bad to wake him up early, because he needs his rest. He has to work hard all day, and he has the rheumatism besides. But I'll tell you what," and again Kitty's face glowed with a great idea; "let's go and throw pebbles ...
— Marjorie's Maytime • Carolyn Wells


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