Bad and Wrong

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
Bad and Wrong
 adj.

   [Durham, UK] Said of something that is both badly designed and wrongly
   executed. This common term is the prototype of, and is used by
   contrast with, three less common terms -- Bad and Right (a kludge,
   something ugly but functional); Good and Wrong (an overblown GUI or
   other attractive nuisance); and (rare praise) Good and Right. These
   terms entered common use at Durham c.1994 and may have been imported
   from elsewhere; they are also in use at Oxford, and the emphatic form
   "Evil and Bad and Wrong" (abbreviated EBW) is reported from there.
   There are standard abbreviations: they start with B&R, a typo for "Bad
   and Wrong". Consequently, B&W is actually "Bad and Right", G&R = "Good
   and Wrong", and G&W = "Good and Right". Compare {evil and rude}, {Good
   Thing}, {Bad Thing}.
    

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