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Meanings of badness in English

Portuguese
severidade
Catalan
agudesa
Spanish
gravedad

Used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather.

        severidade
        Portuguese
        travessura
        Catalan
        maldat
        Spanish
        maldad

        An attribute of mischievous children.

              travessura
              Portuguese
              maldade
              Catalan
              maldat
              Spanish
              maldad

              That which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency.

                  maldade

                  Moral quality.

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                        Usage of badness in English
                        1
                        History doesn't have any 'badness' or 'goodness.' This world has a future.
                        Year's best sf 15
                        2
                        Ironically, those good things are often a direct extension of my badness.
                        Chuck klosterman on film and television
                        3
                        You do not know the badness in the hearts of these people.
                        White Queen of the Cannibals: the Story of Mary Slessor of Calab...
                        4
                        Warden Atherton gave the final sanction to the badness of my name.
                        The Jacket (The Star-Rover)
                        5
                        More like a goose walking over his grave, a tickle of badness.
                        Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
                        6
                        Luckily, there is a place that can make the badness go away.
                        Wired
                        7
                        We are informed that imbecility, in itself, is not synonymous with badness.
                        The Pivot of Civilization
                        8
                        No one seemed to bear Martin Rattler ill-will, notwithstanding his alleged badness.
                        Martin Rattler
                        9
                        So now, what's left over is pretty much just pure undiluted badness.
                        Sorry Please Thank You: Stories
                        10
                        She was too good to suspect the badness of others, Mr. Frank.
                        Making His Way; Or, Frank Courtney's Struggle Upward
                        11
                        It may be, Harry, that badness of trade has spoiled his temper.
                        A Jacobite Exile / Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in...
                        12
                        That's our word out yonder, Lionel, to express the ultimatum of badness.
                        Verner's Pride
                        13
                        The unforeseen defect was the badness of the work in the silk netting.
                        Tono-Bungay
                        14
                        I will not allow the rhetoric of badness into my heart, she said.
                        The Guardian
                        15
                        And this is the reason of the badness of the ground.
                        Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
                        16
                        The only draw-back to this little town is the badness of the streets.
                        A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53
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                        Translations for badness
                        Badness through the time
                        Badness across language varieties
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