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

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

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

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2024

It’s poignantly terrible, but its badness is immaterial to Hogg’s project.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2021

And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers