Noun
(cricket) A weather condition where the light is so poor that the umpires feel that to continue playing would be dangerous.
(figuratively) An unfavourable presentation.
to show something in a bad light
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery. Chinua Achebe
If you could be alarmed into the semblance of modesty, you would charm everybody; but remember my joke against you about the Moon and the Solar System;-"Damn the solar system! bad light - planets too distant - pestered with comets - feeble contriviance; - could make a better with great ease." Sydney Smith
Azhar, with his eye in, promoted himself to open the batting, whereupon bad light prevented any further play. Source: Internet
Following the award show, Howard Stern asked Dirty about the incident with Diddy's bodyguards on his radio show, but Dirty wouldn't play up the incident as he didn't want to shine a bad light on hip hop because of one minor altercation. Source: Internet
Accurate reporting which Mr. Morris doesn’t like apparently because it puts Nicaragua once again in a bad light. Source: Internet
Eventually, Superman turned the public to his favor and Sam Lane was seen in a bad light after his soldier John Corben AKA Metallo ruthlessly endangered civilians. Source: Internet