Antonyms for badness


Grammar : Noun
Spell : bad
Phonetic Transcription : bæd


Definition of badness

Origin :
  • late 14c., baddenesse; see bad + -ness.
  • As in ill : noun misfortune
Example sentences :
  • Though I believe one reason of their depravity is the badness of the actors.
  • Extract from : « Joseph Andrews, Vol. 2 » by Henry Fielding
  • This looks very like blaming Burns's correspondents for the badness of his style.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns
  • A bad man, there is no doubt about it; and big in his badness, which made it all the worse.
  • Extract from : « When the West Was Young » by Frederick R. Bechdolt
  • But the fact remains there are degrees and differences in badness.
  • Extract from : « Rim o' the World » by B. M. Bower
  • Yet in her badness she was frank, natural and untroubled as a child.
  • Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service
  • You must not mind the badness of my scrawl: and let me hear from you.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third » by The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
  • The Tories, in the revolution, suffered most from 524their badness.
  • Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
  • The reason for men's badness is not because they have not plenty of patterns of good.
  • Extract from : « Expositions of Holy Scripture » by Alexander Maclaren
  • I told him that it was the badness of our language, he thought it was the badness of our tempers.
  • Extract from : « Stories of Authors, British and American » by Edwin Watts Chubb
  • He called on her before her nose had quite lost the grippe or her temper the badness.
  • Extract from : « The Trail of the Hawk » by Sinclair Lewis

Synonyms for badness

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