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

Surveying the badness of our childhood favorites as adults helps us gauge how far we have come as a culture, and how much wonder we’ve shed in exchange for maturity.

From Salon • Dec. 9, 2024

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

Very few people act from a core of badness or evilness.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2022

"Say he don't need no colors to be bad. Say he got his badness inside of him."

From "Miracle's Boys" by Jacqueline Woodson