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- noun Plural form of
badness .
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Examples
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The rest of us can keep our little badnesses and our little goodnesses inside our four walls, doing much less damage (one hopes) but also much less benefit.
Katherine Gustafson: Tiger Woods: What Happens When a Great Philanthropist Goes Bad? 2010
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Still, it is a horrible thing -- among the other badnesses to it, it makes the real after-tax cost of insurance premiums dependent on your/the business's tax bracket, which depends on a host of arbitrary things the health of the business, whether it is start-up or mature, various tax strategies, etc. and even on where you live in the US, since tax brackets change significantly with local cost of living differences.
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The farm bill also adversely impacts the environment, international trade and all sorts of other badnesses.
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And now I iz full of lose and broke and many other badnesses, an even Caturday are no comfrt.
IM AT UR OFFICE PARTEE - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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The twenty pairs of eyes gazed beyond Miss Jellings 'head – across ropes and rings and parallel bars – toward the green tree tops and the blue sky; and twenty girls, for that brief hour, regretted their past badnesses.
Just Patty 1911
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Her record of badnesses occupies pages in the Doomsday Book.
Dear Enemy Jean Webster 1896
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Days full of an ordinary little boy's joys and sorrows, goodnesses and badnesses.
The Magic World Gerald Spencer Pryse 1891
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Cruikshank's than Dickens's; it was a thing of such vividly terrible images, and all marked with that peculiarity of Cruikshank that the offered flowers or goodnesses, the scenes and figures intended to comfort and cheer, present themselves under his hand as but more subtly sinister, or more suggestively queer, than the frank badnesses and horrors.
A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879
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Some men's tastes and inclinations are so vitiated and corrupted that they find a joy in living their badnesses over again.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII Alexander Maclaren 1868
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There is a resurrection of deeds as well as of bodies, and all our buried badnesses will front us again, shaking their gory locks at us, and saying that we did them.
Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII Alexander Maclaren 1868
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