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badness|ˈbædnɪs|
[f. bad a. + -ness.]
1. Inferior or deficient quality; poor condition; incorrectness, faultiness; invalidity.
1539Househ. Ord. in Thynne Animadv. Introd. 34 To make relation thereof at the Greencloth of the badnesse of the stuff. 1611Bible Gen. xli. 19 Kine..leane fleshed, such as I neuer saw in all the land of Egypt for badnesse. 1757Burke Abridgm. Eng. Hist. Wks. X. 506 The clergy also took advantage of the badness of his title. 1825Cobbett Rur. Rides 8 Nothing can more strongly prove the badness of the times. 1884Ld. Blackburn in Law Rep. IX. Appeal 620 The supposed badness of the plea.
2. Evil quality or condition; wickedness, depravity; dangerousness, noxiousness, adverseness.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xii. 49 Þe bewte of hir body in badnesse [v.r. baddenesse] she dispended. 1605Shakes. Lear iii. v. 9 A reprouable badnesse in himselfe. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) I. xxvii. 189 Vilely suspicious..from the badness of his own heart. Mod. Forced to retreat by the badness of the weather. |