good-bad
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.43 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Enjoyably schlocky, poor in quality but nonetheless compelling.
Example Sentences
- "The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration."
- "“Road House” exists right on the edge between the “good-bad movie” and the merely bad. I hesitate to recommend it, because so much depends on the ironic vision of the viewer. This is not a good movie."
- "Touch of Evil is not a good movie, but it is a good bad movie, which is more fun than the mediocre or even the adequate."
- "Is Showgirls good-bad or just bad-bad?"
- "The Shoes of the Fisherman is a good-bad film that owes no duty to history or to what were then current affairs."
Etymology
Attributed to G. K. Chesterton.
Inflected Forms
more good-bad (comparative)
most good-bad (superlative)