badness
noun/bædnəs/
Frequency rank: #19,277 most common English word
Meaning
the quality or state of being bad; wickedness or poor quality
Example sentence
The movie was so full of badness that the critics refused to recommend it.
Synonyms & related words
- wickedness
- evil
- inferiority
- poorness
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