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

Surveying the badness of our childhood favorites as adults helps us gauge how far we have come as a culture, and how much wonder we’ve shed in exchange for maturity.

From Salon • Dec. 9, 2024

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