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Quotation dates: 1969-2000
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BAD-MINDED, adj. Having evil thoughts, intentions.Gsw. 1969 George Friel Grace and Miss Partridge (1999) 243:
'You're a right gawk, you,' she edged past him, letting him feel her thigh hard against his. 'You're getting as bad-minded as Wee Annie. I met my doctor. That was all.'Abd. 1990 Stanley Robertson Fish-Hooses (1992) 21:
It wis me wha hid a complex and I aye imagined that folks were speaking aboot mi, and I would get bad-minded.Edb. 2000:
She's aye that bad-minded aboot folk. She disnae believe a man an wumman can just be freends.
