Badness
['bædnəs]
Definition
(noun.) used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather.
Editor: Winthrop--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state of being bad.
Checked by Joseph
Examples
- Then he will no more have true opinion than he will have knowledge about the goodness or badness of his imitations? Plato. The Republic.
- She was so very good herself, I thought, that the badness of other people made her frown all her life. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Instead of trying to crush badness we must turn the power behind it to good account. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The worst had once been matter of trembling conjecture; it was now matter of reason only, a limited badness. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I can't help thinking that their badness was more like the faults of a superior South Sea Islander than like the viler side of the 'crowd' to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There is the badness. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The body, which is one thing, cannot be destroyed by food, which is another, unless the badness of the food is communicated to the body. Plato. The Republic.
- You might as well talk abstractly about the goodness or badness of this universe which contains happiness, pain, exhilaration and indifference in a thousand varying grades and quantities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Millie