From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englisha bad namea bad nameBADif something has a bad name, people do not respect or trust ithave/get a bad name The bar had a bad name and was avoided by all the locals.give somebody/something a bad name These annoying tourists give all Americans a bad name. → bad
Examples from the Corpus
a bad name• In this way the original insights of New Right thinking have acquired for themselves a bad name.• The dinner they gave him ranks among the epic brawls which regularly give the brotherhood of socialist solidarity a bad name.• Then came the kind of spot award that gets Anfield a bad name.• These holy rollers gave all the churches a bad name.• This is the kind of disingenuous hair-splitting that gives politics a bad name.• This is the sort of self-serving, insincere baloney that gives good government a bad name.• On the field, he is annoying and irritating and gives high-salaried athletes more of a bad name than they already have.• What happened is indisputable: students, and the institutions to which they belonged, acquired a bad name universally. 