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Another word for badness

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Noun

  1. Whatever is destructive or harmful

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Sentence Examples

  • He finds, like Job, that there are good men who die prematurely notwithstanding their goodness, and bad men who live long notwithstanding their badness (vii.

  • The Empire, for which Darth Vader exercises his badness, grew out of the downfall of a democratic republic, and one man, the Emperor, rules with no constraints on his authority.

  • Weaving is taught in the girls' school, and fairs are held for the sale of farm produce; but the absence of a railway and the badness of the roads retard commerce.

  • The Tower was injured, and a portion of the roof of the church of St Mary-leBow, Cheapside, was carried off and fell some distance away, being forced into the ground as much as 20 ft., a proof of the badness of the thoroughfares as well as of the force of the wind.

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