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Meanings of bad speculation in English

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Usage of bad speculation in English
1
Not a bad speculation, I should say; I wonder how much they paid the artist.
The Master Detective: Being Some Further Investigations of Chris...
2
It's been a bad speculation for me.
The Log of the Flying Fish: A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peri...
3
He understands instantly that his brother has made a bad speculation and wishes to protect himself from loss.
Invisible Links
4
That journey was a great cost- aterriblybad speculation, he went on, shaking his mottled, bluish head wofully.
Overland: A Novel
5
No bad speculation for him.
The Heir of Redclyffe
6
A bad speculation, Mr.
Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life
7
It is also the chief cause of wars, which are admittedly almost always a bad speculation from the mere point of view of wealth.
Political Ideals
8
We used to do a good deal in hosiery, but we found it was a very bad speculation, and so we gave it up.
Second Shetland Truck System Report
9
From time to time, especially after some exceptionally bad speculation, she confesses that what she fears most is to die in a pauper's bed.
The Lerouge Case
10
Bad speculation, I warn you, my practice will be lost, and, you know, no practice, no money.
The Lerouge Case
11
-Butwhat connection is there between D--'s bad speculations and my hogshead?
Sophisms of the Protectionists
12
He and Mr. Whippleton have been making some bad speculations in lands, which will not fetch what they paid for them.
Desk and Debit; or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk
13
Singularly enough, he escaped all the dangers he so recklessly braved, and all the bad speculations he embarked in turned out good.
Willis the Pilot : A Sequel to the Swiss Family Robinson / Or, A...
14
He's very heavily in debt, I believe -over some bad speculations -and an heiress is about the only thing to float him.
Winding Paths
15
There would have been plenty of money to have left with it; but I've made some very bad speculations lately, and lost a great deal.
The Village by the River
16
"In that case it wouldn't be a bad speculation for our friend Sherrick," remarked F. B., "to purchase a few of the young man's works.
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
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