How To Use Badness In A Sentence
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The animadverted on his faults and the badness of his taste.
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There is never a desire to blame all the badness on spirits or demons.
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The fact, as already pointed on here, is that kids attain badness, only a tiny number are born bad.
Youth Crime « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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it would needlessly bring badness into the world
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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
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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
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I'm sorry for all the badness I ever did.
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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
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Injustice is a special kind of badness, one that necessarily involves wrongdoing.
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People of higher power have always set penalties depending on the degree of badness of the crime.
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Thereafter, the emergence of prohibited emotion is experienced as a failure to embody the required ideal, an exposure of the underlying essential defectiveness or badness, and is accompanied by feelings of isolation, shame and self-loathing.
Robert D. Stolorow: What Is Character and How Does it Change?
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Man, those narrow-lapelled sharkskin suits, that felling left and that slaughterhouse right, and that scowl: his badness transcended race.
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It must, one would think, have been the badness of the ` ` copy '' that induced the compositors to turn ` ` the nature and theory of the Greek verb '' into _the native theology of the Greek verb_; ` ` the conser < p 124 > vation of energy '' into the _conversation of energy_; and the ` ` Forest Conservancy
Literary Blunders
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She loves his madness and his badness; she loves the way he made her feel that the two of them were united against everyone else, against all the things that convention and society demanded of them.
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His parents animadverted on the badness of his taste.
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This again is to say that it is due to the badness of the audience when his rhetoric includes aspects which are not in line with the idea of argumentative and pertinent rhetoric. (iii) In dealing with methods of traditional rhetoric Aristotle obviously assumes that even methods which have traditionally been used instead of argumentation can be refined so that they support the aim of an argumentative style of rhetoric.
Aristotle's Rhetoric
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Our own badness is so far from excusing us in not reproving, that our being by it rendered unfit to reprove is an aggravation of our badness; I must not say, "I have a beam in my own eye, and therefore I will not help my brother with the mote out of his.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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The new order of movie bad guys proved their badness by shooting lawmen in the back.
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And here is a boxplot of the net goodness (or badness) on a percentage scale.
Planet Atheism
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I'm choosing to reject those oppositions, to state, loudly and forcefully, that moral valuations of motherhood are necessarily fluid, and that if my mode of mothering is 'bad' to some, then I will celebrate and defend that badness.
The Bad Mother Manifesto | Her Bad Mother
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The level of badness you need to display to get disbarred is currently way, way, way worse than this.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Interesting Libel Decision Arising from the Vaccine / Autism Debate
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Instead of a sentence that emphasizes the badness of the offender, they aim to discover, and then reinforce, a sense of worth in their students.
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He has come to earth to verify Mercury's tale of the people's badness, and finding the news only too true, besides being uncourteously received by the people around, he is glad to meet with a kindly welcome at
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There is something in us that resists the idea of unalloyed evil/badness in even the most disreputable governments.
Michael Brenner: Ben Bernanke -- Now and Forevermore
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Now there are volcanoes and floods and all manner of badness, and it's up to you as the player to set things right with flippers and ball.
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What people call goodness has to be kept in check just as carefully as what they call badness; for the human constitution will not stand very much of either without serious psychological mischief, ending in insanity or crime.
Getting Married
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Like parents forgiving naughty children, they forgive pop culture its badness, because it reminds them of when they were children.
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My badness is also well documented and laid bare for the world to see. heather Said,
The Bad Mother Manifesto | Her Bad Mother
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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
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And the exquisite consolation, when you have ascertained the badness of all fact, in knowing that badness is inferior to goodness, to the end -- it only rubs the pessimism in.
Familiar Letters of William James III
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It’s one thing to bask in badness because it’s “cool” — it’s another to talk about it as an issue that haunts many mothers.
I’m Not Bad, I Just Blog That Way | Her Bad Mother
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It must, one would think, have been the badness of the ` ` copy '' that induced the compositors to turn ` ` the nature and theory of the Greek verb '' into _the native theology of the Greek verb_; ` ` the conser < p 124 > vation of energy '' into the _conversation of energy_; and the ` ` Forest Conservancy
Literary Blunders
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Negative value judgment is an important origin to bring on some student's study badness.
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Goodness must be praised in sonnets and lyrical monologues, pointing out that should evil prevail, badness will happen.
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In WHIP, though, the AL still has the edge in badness
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An implicit appeal to eugenics persuades the reader that the innate badness of the suicidal killer can be known just by looking.
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All this badness is clearly stemming from our wonderful executive branch.
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Personally, I have never been fully convinced of his unmatchable badness.
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Should we accept that corporate bosses do bad things not because of the badness of their hearts but because they are obliged to?
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All the talk about the current problems coming from the gradual repeal of the Glass Steagal from 1980 to 2000 are generally barking up the wrong tree, the gradual allowance of interstate banking (where banks could take deposits and have branches in more than one state), which occurred concurrently, and led to bigger and bigger banks would seem to have mattered far more, if bigness is where the badness is coming from.
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He seems to possess some innate badness of character and fondness for low company.
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There was not a hint of badness in him.
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And, to believe that ‘fighting back’ consists of browbeating our elected politicians into standing up and denouncing Republican badness and wrongness is infantile.
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Former badness is no bar to God's present grace and mercy.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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He had taken with him more badness than goodness, leaving not a vacuum, but a breathing space.
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They only recognise badness when they perceive it in others.
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A badness which embraces and wallows in social dejecta.
Good Bad
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All decent human work partakes (let us thank the great reasonablenesses of real things!) of the quality of play: if it did not it would be bad or ever on the verge of badness; and if ever human activity attains to fullest fruitfulness, it will be (every experience of our own best work shows it) when the distinction of _work_ and of _play_ will cease to have a meaning, play remaining only as the preparatory work of the child, as the strength-repairing, balance-adjusting work of the adult.
Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life
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Even when he's out smashing bottles, he's both enjoying the badness of it all and making a responsible point about global politics.
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They all featured a strong, silent, bad-good man whose badness metamorphoses into redemptive goodness by the end of the final reel.
