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[ noun ] that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
Synonyms Examples : "take the bad with the good" Used in print (Brand Blanshard, "The Emotive Theory," Robert...)The pain of the rabbit was not itself bad ; nothing evil was happening when that pain was being endured ; badness , in the only sense in which it is involved at_all , waited for its appearance till I came and looked and felt . Indeed we should say , on_the_contrary , that the accident of our later discovery made no difference whatever to the badness of the animal 's pain , that it would have been every whit as bad whether a chance passer-by happened later to discover the body and feel repugnance or not . It removes our present expression and shows that the badness we meant would not be affected by this , whereas on positivist grounds it should be . In the only sense in which badness is involved at_all , whatever was bad in the first case is still present in its entirety , since all that is expressed in either case is a state of feeling , and that feeling is still there . He holds that goodness and badness lie_in feelings of approval or disapproval . Related terms good good quality evil worse liability inadvisability undesirability unworthiness |
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[ noun ] used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
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[ noun ] an attribute of mischievous children
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