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Bad and Wrong: adj. [Durham, UK] Said of something that is both badly designed and
wrongly executed. This common term is the prototype of, and is used by
contrast with, three less common terms — Bad and Right (a kludge,
something ugly but functional); Good and Wrong (an overblown GUI or other
attractive nuisance); and (rare praise) Good and Right. These terms
entered common use at Durham c.1994 and may have been imported from
elsewhere; they are also in use at Oxford, and the emphatic form
“Evil and Bad and Wrong” (abbreviated EBW) is reported from
there. There are standard abbreviations: they start with B&R, a typo
for “Bad and Wrong”. Consequently, B&W is actually
“Bad and Right”, G&R = “Good and Wrong”, and
G&W = “Good and Right”. Compare
evil and rude,
Good Thing, Bad Thing.
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