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

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

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