badness
/ˈbadnəs
/noun [mass noun]
1Poor quality or low standard: none of you are doing justice to the badness of this film the badness of the writing is astonishing
2Lack of or failure to conform to moral virtue; wickedness; evil: she is not doing this out of badness the concepts of goodness and badness...
- Should we accept that corporate bosses do bad things not because of the badness of their hearts but because they are obliged to?
- They all featured a strong, silent, bad-good man whose badness metamorphoses into redemptive goodness by the end of the final reel.
- Instead of a sentence that emphasizes the badness of the offender, they aim to discover, and then reinforce, a sense of worth in their students.
