Meanings
nounbad belle (uncountable)
- NigeriauncountableEnvy; jealousy.
Nigerian future leaders must stay strong always above misleading advisement, wrong influences and bad belle.
2006, Jubil Aka, Blacks Greatest Homeland: Nigeria Is Born Again, page 341 more example
I still do not understand how one could call him or herself a leader or elite when the community is riddled with so much frustration, hopelessness, disillusionment, anger, disease, corruption, waste, indiscipline, arrogance and bad belle.
2004, Julius Omozuanvbo Ihonvbere, Social sector reforms in Nigeria, page 37
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