[
US
/ˈbædnəs/
]
[ UK /bˈædnəs/ ]
[ UK /bˈædnəs/ ]
NOUN
-
that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
take the bad with the good - an attribute of mischievous children
- used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
How To Use badness In A Sentence
- The animadverted on his faults and the badness of his taste.
- There is never a desire to blame all the badness on spirits or demons.
- The fact, as already pointed on here, is that kids attain badness, only a tiny number are born bad. Youth Crime « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
- it would needlessly bring badness into the world
- My novelist friend Janet Fitch (White Oleander, Paint It Black), herself a literary explicator and connoisseur of female “badness,” was inspired to invoke those bad old days the other evening. On Being a Bad Mother
- With lively illustrations, catchy, nasty nursery rhymes and loads of mischief, this celebration of badness is a complete hit in our family. Getting Wrong Right: Badness for Beginners
- I'm sorry for all the badness I ever did.
- Every sin, the oftener it is committed, the more it acquireth in the quality of evil; as it succeeds in time, so it proceeds in degrees of badness; for as they proceed they ever multiply, and, like figures in arithmetick, the last stands for more than all that went before it. Religio Medici
- Injustice is a special kind of badness, one that necessarily involves wrongdoing.
- People of higher power have always set penalties depending on the degree of badness of the crime.
