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/ˈbædnəs/
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[ UK /bˈædnəs/ ]
[ UK /bˈædnəs/ ]
NOUN
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that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
take the bad with the good - an attribute of mischievous children
- used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
How To Use badness In A Sentence
- Should we accept that corporate bosses do bad things not because of the badness of their hearts but because they are obliged to?
- Like parents forgiving naughty children, they forgive pop culture its badness, because it reminds them of when they were children.
- My badness is also well documented and laid bare for the world to see. heather Said, The Bad Mother Manifesto | Her Bad Mother
- Every sin, the oftener it is committed, the more it acquireth in the quality of evil; as it succeeds in time, so it proceeds in degrees of badness; for as they proceed they ever multiply, and, like figures in arithmetick, the last stands for more than all that went before it. Religio Medici
- And the exquisite consolation, when you have ascertained the badness of all fact, in knowing that badness is inferior to goodness, to the end -- it only rubs the pessimism in. Familiar Letters of William James III
- It’s one thing to bask in badness because it’s “cool” — it’s another to talk about it as an issue that haunts many mothers. I’m Not Bad, I Just Blog That Way | Her Bad Mother
- It must, one would think, have been the badness of the ` ` copy '' that induced the compositors to turn ` ` the nature and theory of the Greek verb '' into _the native theology of the Greek verb_; ` ` the conser < p 124 > vation of energy '' into the _conversation of energy_; and the ` ` Forest Conservancy Literary Blunders
- Negative value judgment is an important origin to bring on some student's study badness.
- Goodness must be praised in sonnets and lyrical monologues, pointing out that should evil prevail, badness will happen.
- In WHIP, though, the AL still has the edge in badness USATODAY.com - Revisiting preseason's setup rankings
