badness
Example Sentences
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I am growing to love Jane Schoenbrun’s exfoliation of ’80s horror obsessions, especially for the movie’s nonjudgmental embrace: Let these movies be free in all their “problematic” badness and let them work on you.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
Although I do credit kids with nearly extrasensory powers in reading their parents, daily life consists of so many moments of goodness and badness and activity and distraction and forgettable stretches of getting by.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2023
To give the story larger and more legible implications, she pushes the loosely drawn characters of the movie toward greater extremes of badness and goodness.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
Her badness, her boldness, her voice is being translated into this galvanizing force for a young generation.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2022
‘I mean: if it’s poisonous, or something that will show its badness quick, well, better me than you, master, if you understand me.’
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
