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Meanings of badness in inglês

português
severidade
catalão
agudesa
espanhol
gravedad

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

severidade
português
travessura
catalão
maldat
espanhol
maldad

An attribute of mischievous children.

travessura
português
maldade
catalão
maldat
espanhol
maldad

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

maldade

Moral quality.

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Examples for "wickedness"
Examples for "wickedness"
1
As virtue and wickedness consist not in passion, but in action; so
Meditations
2
You are refined in your wickedness; you are inexorable in your hate.
Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends
3
For there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
4
The wickedness and insincerity of the enemy appear from the following considerations:
A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North A...
5
The wickedness of London appals me; and yet I am no paragon.
Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1
Usage of badness in inglês
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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