bad lot

English

Noun

bad lot (plural bad lots)

  1. A bad person.
    • 1875 October 16, Charles Dickens, “The Red House”, in All the Year Round:
      But he's a bad lot, is the master — a thorough bad lot, take my word for it, and I'm one as knows him well — too well, by a deal.
    • 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 15:
      “I went on, ‘I’m going to warn you, whether you like it or not. That man would as soon murder you in your bed as look at you. He’s a bad lot. You can say what you like to me, but remember what I’ve told you. He’s a bad lot!’”

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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