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badification

badification noun: the process by which something becomes bad (in various senses).

Noun

badification (uncountable)

  1. (nonstandard) The process by which something becomes bad (in various senses).
    • Near-synonym: worsification
    • Is your bad girl self feeling uptight and out-of-sight? No problem. It happens to the baddest of us. With a little behavior badification, she'll be back in a flash.2004, Cameron Tuttle, The Bad Girl's Guide to Getting Personal, San Francisco, C.A.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 16

Examples of badification in a sentence

  • Still, we can utilize the Chinese government's de-badification technique to goodify some of the problems we're lucky enough to have.2013 December 28, Rex Huppke, “Learning to look on the bright side, Chinese-style”, in Dayton Daily News, Dayton, O.H.: Cox Enterprises...
  • My badification is more about aesthetics."2021, Scott Reintgen, Breaking Badlands (Talespinners; 3), New York, N.Y.: Crown Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 63:

Origin of badification

From bad + -ification.

Questions about badification

What does badification mean?
Badification means the process by which something becomes bad (in various senses).
How do you use badification in a sentence?
Still, we can utilize the Chinese government's de-badification technique to goodify some of the problems we're lucky enough to have.
What part of speech is badification?
Badification is a noun.

Words near badification in the dictionary

  1. Badiangon
  2. Badians
  3. Badias
  4. Badie
  5. Badies
  6. badification
  7. badified
  8. badifies
  9. badify
  10. badifying
  11. badigeon

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