badness

Example Sentences

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The longer version of “Cursed Child” had more time to delve into Scorpius’ fears about his own identity, including the question of whether goodness and badness might be inherited traits.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2025

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

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2024

I make mistakes, but here is what I've learned that helps me mitigate those feelings of badness that helps me overcome them or circumvent them the next time, hopefully.

From Salon • Jul. 12, 2023

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

I had a sense of foreboding much like the one that had suffused so many of my days at Sing Sing—a feeling of imminent confrontation, of badness just ahead.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover