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n.

The state of being bad.

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    Whatever is destructive or harmful: bad, evil, ill. See help/harm/harmless.

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The noun has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
  Synonym: bad
  Antonym: goodness (meaning #1)

Meaning #2: used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
  Synonym: severity

Meaning #3: an attribute of mischievous children
  Synonyms: naughtiness, mischievousness

 
 
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Dictionary. Webster 1913 Dictionary edited by Patrick J. Cassidy  Read more
Thesaurus. Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
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