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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, Bad and Wrong"

(abbreviated EBW) is reported fromm 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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