badness

Example Sentences

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But it also hints at the male-pattern badness still to come.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

He said said there had been "no badness, no malice" in the actions that led to the crash.

From BBC • Aug. 19, 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

Her badness, her boldness, her voice is being translated into this galvanizing force for a young generation.

From Salon • Oct. 2, 2022

“Yeah, but it’s hard knowing that people can hide so much badness inside themselves, people you think you know and love. It makes you wonder about everybody.”

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe