Definition

1. Verb:
   • To suffer a bad reputation: To be subject to or bear the burden of a negative reputation, gossip, or blame, often without conclusive proof or sometimes unjustly.
   • To be labeled (negatively): To have a specific negative label or accusation attached to one's name.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Anh ấy mang tiếng là người không đáng tin. (He suffers a bad reputation as an untrustworthy person.)
  • Tôi không muốn mang tiếng xấu với hàng xóm. (I don't want to get a bad name with the neighbors.)
  • Cô ấy chỉ mang tiếng tham nhũng chứ chưa bị kết tội. (She is merely labeled as corrupt but hasn't been convicted.)

Advanced Usage

• The phrase often implies a disparity between reputation and reality, carrying a sense of unfairness or undeserved blame.
• It can be used in a comparative structure for emphasis: "mang tiếng... như..." (to bear the reputation of... as if...).
  • Hắn mang tiếng giàu như thực ra nợ nần chồng chất. (He bears the reputation of being rich as if he were, but in reality, he's deep in debt.)

Variants and Related Words

• Mang tiếng oan (verb phrase): To suffer an unjust/bad reputation; to be wrongly accused.
  • Ông ấy mang tiếng oan suốt mười năm. (He bore an unjust reputation for ten years.)

Synonyms

• To be reputed (ill): To be generally said or believed to be something (bad).
• To be stigmatized: To be marked with disgrace or strong disapproval.
• To get a bad name: To acquire a negative reputation.

Related Idioms

• Mang tiếng chó má: To bear a terribly bad reputation (using a vulgar idiom for emphasis).

  • Nó làm việc đó khiến cả dòng họ mang tiếng chó má. (He did that, causing the whole family to bear a terrible reputation.)

• Mang tiếng đời: To bear the gossip or judgments of the world/society.

  • Sống cho mình, đừng sợ mang tiếng đời. (Live for yourself, don't be afraid of society's gossip.)

verb

1. to suffer a bad reputation