Significados de bad speculation en inglés

Not a bad speculation, I should say; I wonder how much they paid the artist.

It's been a bad speculation for me.

He understands instantly that his brother has made a bad speculation and wishes to protect himself from loss.

That journey was a great cost- aterriblybad speculation, he went on, shaking his mottled, bluish head wofully.

No bad speculation for him.

A bad speculation, Mr.

It is also the chief cause of wars, which are admittedly almost always a bad speculation from the mere point of view of wealth.

We used to do a good deal in hosiery, but we found it was a very bad speculation, and so we gave it up.

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.

Bad speculation, I warn you, my practice will be lost, and, you know, no practice, no money.

-Butwhat connection is there between D--'s bad speculations and my hogshead?

He and Mr. Whippleton have been making some bad speculations in lands, which will not fetch what they paid for them.

Singularly enough, he escaped all the dangers he so recklessly braved, and all the bad speculations he embarked in turned out good.

He's very heavily in debt, I believe -over some bad speculations -and an heiress is about the only thing to float him.

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.

"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.