Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being bad, evil, vicious, depraved, wrong, improper, erroneous, etc.; want or deficiency of good qualities, physical or moral: as, the badness of the heart, of the season, of the roads, etc. See
bad .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being bad.
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- noun The quality of being
bad .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an attribute of mischievous children
- noun that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
- noun used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
Etymologies
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Examples
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My badness is also well documented and laid bare for the world to see. heather Said,
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The fact, as already pointed on here, is that kids attain badness, only a tiny number are born bad.
Youth Crime « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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All this badness is clearly stemming from our wonderful executive branch.
Breakfast Links: Spying, Mind Control & Colbert : #comments 2007
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With lively illustrations, catchy, nasty nursery rhymes and loads of mischief, this celebration of badness is a complete hit in our family.
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In WHIP, though, the AL still has the edge in badness
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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.
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What people call goodness has to be kept in check just as carefully as what they call badness; for the human constitution will not stand very much of either without serious psychological mischief, ending in insanity or crime.
Getting Married George Bernard Shaw 1903
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Our own badness is so far from excusing us in not reproving, that our being by it rendered unfit to reprove is an aggravation of our badness; I must not say, "I have a beam in my own eye, and therefore I will not help my brother with the mote out of his."
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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Former badness is no bar to God's present grace and mercy.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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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.
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