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What is a bad apple?

What is a bad apple? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic) A person who is not wholesome, honest, or trustworthy, especially one who has an adverse influence on others.
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They knew in those days that there was always a bad apple in the group.
Can one speckled and bad apple in a barrel of diseased apples turn the other apples good?
Second, Blackwater never was a lone bad apple.
This is the old trick of finding one bad apple and extrapolating away to beat the band.
The financial planning profession as a whole now faces an uphill battle to overcome the reputational damage caused by one large bad apple.
What he did in his speech last week was take the bad apple approach and say OK, what we're going to do is we're going to stiffen the penalties on the bad apples.

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