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How do you use Badness in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like bad or mischievousness, plus the exact meaning.

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Badness in a sentence

Badness meaning

The quality or degree of being bad.

Synonyms of Badness

bad mischievousness naughtiness intensiveness intensity severeness severity good goodness quality disobedience

Related words

Other words often associated with Badness or its synonyms:

evil degree level grade hardship rigor grimness rigorousness plainness difficulty asperity rigour

Using Badness

  • The main meaning on this page is: The quality or degree of being bad.
  • Useful related words include: bad, mischievousness, naughtiness, intensiveness.
  • In the example corpus, badness often appears in combinations such as: the badness, badness of.

Context around Badness

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 14 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

utter 1× royal 1× wide 1× moral 1× intrinsic 1×

Often after:

associated 1× binse 1× regardless 1×

Sentence patterns with Badness

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

comparing the badness of two 2× break the badness is increased 1× broadness even badness to chip 1× crooks like badness binse the 1× evil or badness 1× goodness and badness are just 1× goodness but badness 1× his royal badness regardless of 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

but as john 1× curtis 2011 p 1× dangerous crooks like 1× emotivists think not 1× formally the algorithm 1× goodness and badness 1×

Common sentence endings:

are just states 1× evil or badness 1× explanation is available 1× feelings of disapproval 1× goodness but badness 1× improve his grades 1×

Words around Badness

Just before it in the word index:

badmus 21 badmouthing 11 badmouthed 6 badmouth 9 badmotorfinger 3 badminton 197

Just after it in the word index:

badnjak 2 badnore 5 bado 3 badoe 3 badoer 2 badoglio 3

Similar in corpus frequency:

aal 24 aalto 24 aardvark 24 aarogya 24 abalos 24 abbess 24

Corpus analysis for Badness

  • In this selection, "badness" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, utter, royal, wide, associated, binse and regardless stand out and add context to how "badness" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include comparing the badness of two and break the badness is increased. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "badness" sits close to words such as aal, aalto and aardvark, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with badness

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Goodness and badness are just states. (6 words)

The only way to keep your name alive is to do badness. (12 words)

There’s too much riding on the necessity of team-wide badness. (12 words)

Longer example sentences

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? (41 words)

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. (40 words)

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. (39 words)

Question examples

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? (41 words)

But, as John Mulaney once said, “If you’re comparing the badness of two words, and you won’t even say one of them? (24 words)

Example sentences (16)

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?

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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.

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.

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Common combinations with badness

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "badness" in a sentence?
An example: "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." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "badness" from authentic English texts.
What does "badness" mean?
Badness means: The quality or degree of being bad.
What are synonyms of "badness"?
Common synonyms of "badness" include: bad, mischievousness, naughtiness, intensiveness, intensity, severeness, severity, good. Plus 3 more synonyms.
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Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "badness", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.