Badness

Formally, the algorithm defines a value called badness associated with each possible line break; the badness is increased if the spaces on the line must stretch or shrink too much to make the line the correct width.

Goodness and badness are just states.

It is hard to identify a specific catalyst, but it is easy to identify the utter badness.

Over time, the word "worst" evolved in meaning to refer to something of the lowest or poorest quality, not just in terms of evil or badness.

Dangerous crooks like Badness Binse, The Postcard Bandit, and prison escapee Peter Gibb along with outfits like the Sledgehammer Gang were regularly pulling in big sums with dramatic heists.

His Royal Badness — regardless of how you identify him, he is indisputably one of the greatest musical virtuosos of all time,” said Deborah Dugan, President/CEO of the Recording Academy.

John Mulaney has a joke about someone telling him that the word “midget” was “as bad as the n-word” and him explaining, “If you’re comparing the badness of two words, and you won’t even say one of them?

But, as John Mulaney once said, “If you’re comparing the badness of two words, and you won’t even say one of them?

I admire Zellwegger’s performance most of all for risking outright broadness, even badness, to chip away at the truths of the star’s persona.

SEPTEMBER: What kind of “badness” might give your goodness more power?

The only way to keep your name alive is to do badness.

There’s too much riding on the necessity of team-wide badness.

Curtis (2011) p. 40. Tracy attended several Jesuit academies in his teenage years, which he claimed took the "badness" out of him and helped him improve his grades.

Emotivists think not, claiming that we do not need to postulate the existence of moral "badness" or "wrongness" to explain why considering certain deeds makes us feel disapproval; that all we really observe when we introspect are feelings of disapproval.

If it is good not to touch a woman, it is bad to touch one: for there is no opposite to goodness but badness.

The algorithm will then find the breakpoints that will minimize the sum of squares of the badness (including penalties) of the resulting lines.

Thus the emotivist asks why not adopt the simple explanation and say that this is all there is, rather than insist that some intrinsic "badness" (of murder, for example) must be causing feelings when a simpler explanation is available.