Usage examples of "bad habit" in English with translation to Spanish

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Smoking is a bad habit. Fumar es una mala costumbre.
He could not get out of the bad habit. Él no podía quitarse la mala costumbre.
You should kick that bad habit. Tú debes deshacerte de ese mal hábito.
Eating between meals is a bad habit. 'Picotear' entre comidas es un mal hábito.
Telling lies is a very bad habit. Decir mentiras es un hábito muy malo.
Biting your fingernails is a bad habit. Morderse las uñas es un mal hábito.
You should get rid of that bad habit. Tú debes deshacerte de ese mal hábito.
It's hard to change a bad habit. Es difícil cambiar un mal hábito.
He has the bad habit of chewing his pencil. Tiene el mal hábito de morder el lápiz.
A bad habit, once formed, is difficult to get rid of. Es difícil deshacerse de un mal hábito, cuando éste ya ha arraigado.
Once you've got into a bad habit, it can be difficult to get out of it. Una vez que tienes un mal hábito, puede ser difícil salir de él.
Once you start smoking, it is difficult to get rid of that bad habit. Una vez que se empieza a fumar, es difícil dejar ese mal hábito.
We must put an end to a bad habit as soon as possible. Tenemos que acabar con los malos hábitos lo más pronto posible.
Once you've formed a bad habit, you can't get rid of it easily. Una vez que adquiriste un hábito, no podrás dejarlo fácilmente.
Once you have formed a bad habit, you can't get rid of it easily. Una vez que adquiriste un hábito, no podrás dejarlo fácilmente.
They smell bad. Ellos huelen mal.
He has a habit of sucking his pencil. Tiene la costumbre de chupar el lápiz.
That food is so bad that I wouldn´t dream of eating it. Esa comida es tan mala que yo ni soñaría en comerla.
He has the habit of spitting on the ground. Él tiene el hábito de escupir al piso.
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority. Los grandes hombres son en su mayoría malas personas, incluso cuando ejercen su influencia y no su autoridad.
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