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Definition of Badnesses
1. badness [n] - See also: badness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Badnesses
Literary usage of Badnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1903)
"In great part it is unworthy of refined analysis and must be attributed, like
most of the other badnesses of life, to " cussedness " under provocation. ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"I think it was lucky that he died with such good impulse flashing at the top of
his badnesses.—MITCHELL, DONALD G., 1890, English Lands Letters and Kings, ..."
3. The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris: Minister of the United States to by Gouverneur Morris (1888)
"They (the triumvirate*) have given it to Bremond to get it printed, and he wishes
to correct some of its badnesses, but I tell him not to change a letter ..."
4. English Lands, Letters and Kings by Donald Grant Mitchell (1897)
"... in his young days — was scarce more than half responsible for his wry life;
running to badnesses — on occasions — under good impulses; perhaps marrying ..."