Example Sentences

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I am growing to love Jane Schoenbrun’s exfoliation of ’80s horror obsessions, especially for the movie’s nonjudgmental embrace: Let these movies be free in all their “problematic” badness and let them work on you.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

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 mean: if it’s poisonous, or something that will show its badness quick, well, better me than you, master, if you understand me.’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien