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have a bad name

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have a bad name
give something/someone a bad name - to cause people to lose respect for something or someone. Foreign aid has a bad name because it often fails to help the people most in need.
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The Bekwando people have a bad name - very bad name.
And when they have made many conquests and received defeats at the hands of many, they violently and speedily get into a way of not believing anything which they believed before, and hence, not only they, but philosophy and all that relates to it is apt to have a bad name with the rest of the world.
 
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