bad
adjective
not good in any manner or degree.
badness
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a word derived from
bad.
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
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
Very few people act from a core of badness or evilness.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
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
