"The ___ News Bears"

The answer

BAD

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BAD answer page.

Used 17 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1981. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for BAD

Every other clue in this collection answered by BAD, most used first.

• Naughty - used 88 times, most recently in 2026
• Rotten - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
• Misbehaving - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
• Abysmal - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Spoiled - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Wicked - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Evil - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Not good - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Awful - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• No longer edible - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Unfavorable - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
• Defective - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Lousy - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• Like Leroy Brown - used 15 times, most recently in 2008
• Michael Jackson album - used 13 times, most recently in 2015
• Sinister - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Terrible - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Disobedient - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Scolding word to a dog - used 12 times, most recently in 2016
• Michael Jackson hit - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Faulty. - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Good, in the 'hood - used 9 times, most recently in 2011
• Ill-behaved - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Severe - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• Atrocious - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Poorly behaved - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Counterfeit - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
• Crummy - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Rotten to the core - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Villainous - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Harmful - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• It's not good - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Low-quality - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Quite inadequate - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• Tainted - used 6 times, most recently in 2016

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• In the past - AGO, used 1,064 times
• In the style of - ALA, used 784 times
• Under the weather - ILL, used 536 times
• "___ the season ..." - TIS, used 398 times
• To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times
• In the manner of - ALA, used 367 times

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