0 the quality of being evil or morally unacceptable:
2 the quality of being severe, harmful, or unpleasant:
We can define "moral" as being concerned with the judgment of the goodness or badness of human action and character.
The casino is associated with money-laundering and other badness.
the father who fears he's passed his badness onto his children
She never saw any badness in anyone.
This would be fine if the movie's badness was played for laughs, but it's not.
The very badness of these books reminds us of other, better books.
The badness of the painting is deliberate.
Whatever we do, there are bad consequences, but you have to judge the relative badness of all the consequences.