badness

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

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

All of the badness boils under my skin, stingy ginger-ale bubbles fighting to breathe.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson