What's the difference between badder and madder?

Badder


Definition:

  • () compar. of Bad, a.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That the Rangers left Los Angeles without a win is hard to believe, considering the series of two goal leads the team had (four) over the first pair of games, and considering just how well the underdog New Yorkers played against the bigger, badder and better Kings.
  • (2) No spoilers, but I think JR just might be back – and badder than ever.
  • (3) I have met people here whose crimes are a lot badder with way less time.” Senior officials at Angola prison refused to allow the Guardian to speak to Jackson, on grounds that it might upset his victims – even though his crime was victim-less.
  • (4) Yet those uppity corporations have only grown bigger and badder.
  • (5) There are echoes of Gaddafi in the personality cult surrounding al-Assad, but Syria's political and security apparatus is bigger and badder than anything Gaddafi could muster.
  • (6) Morgan says the work that means most to him is one of his lesser-known pieces, Longford, about the relationship between Christian do-gooder Lord Longford and child-killing do-badder Myra Hindley.
  • (7) France's sudden military intervention in Mali was bigger and badder than anyone anticipated, and in three short weeks French troops – with a bit of help from their Malian counterparts – have not only halted the rebel advance but rolled back almost all their gains, retaking the northern cities of Gao, Timbuktu and Kidal.
  • (8) Without a label to influence her or sales to worry about, it will be interesting to see what kind of rawer, badder music she might be performing live these days (the inclusion of a cover of Nirvana's Territorial Pissings on Loveless's setlist makes this question all the more interesting).
  • (9) 5.29pm BST Diana Badder mails with some more thoughts on the fallen champion.

Madder


Definition:

  • (n.) A plant of the Rubia (R. tinctorum). The root is much used in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine. It is cultivated in France and Holland. See Rubiaceous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The less than full-throated defence of the cabinet member follows similar comments by White House chief of staff Dennis McDonough on Sunday, who said the president was “madder than hell” about the scandal.
  • (2) Twenty compounds were isolated from the roots of Rubia tinctorum which are used as a commercial source of madder color.
  • (3) Tom Madders, head of campaigns at the National Autistic Society, said: "The Department for Work and Pensions is certainly guilty of helping to drive this media narrative around benefits, portraying those who receive benefits as workshy scroungers or abusing a system that's really easy to cheat."
  • (4) But you put them in a madness asylum they get madder and madder and completely lose their mind, whereas if you work with them, they get better."
  • (5) You can watch as "the Mad Hatter gets even madder", and throw pepper at the Duchess.
  • (6) This "scrounger rhetoric" was already having an impact on people's lives, Madders said, citing a woman who rang the charity to say a neighbour who formerly gave lifts to her autistic child had stopped doing so following press articles about disabled people receiving free cars under a government scheme .
  • (7) President Barack Obama is "madder than hell" about the scandal enveloping the Department of Veterans Affairs, White House chief of staff Denis McDonough said on Sunday.
  • (8) He's madder than Mad Jack McMad, the winner of last year's Mr Madman Competition!
  • (9) This will have an impact on cancer detection, as well as causing problems for the management of patients who may have benign diseases, but whose symptoms are significantly impacting on their quality of life and employment.” Labour’s Justin Madders, a shadow health minister and Cheshire MP, said: These plans are a betrayal of the founding principles of the NHS, that access to care should be available to everyone, and also that long waits shouldn’t happen.
  • (10) On quantitative analysis by high-performance liquid chromatography, the contents of ruberthric acid and lucidin-3-O-primeveroside in commercial madder color were determined 0.07% and 0.04%, respectively.
  • (11) The president is madder than hell,” McDonough told CBS's Face the Nation.
  • (12) The Labour MP Justin Madders, chair of the APPG, said social mobility was “shamefully low” at the top of UK society.
  • (13) We also investigated lucidinethylether, which is formed from lucidin by extraction of madder roots with boiling ethanol.
  • (14) Labour MP Justin Madders, a shadow health minister, recently outlined his concern about the lack of public attention so far on “Jeremy Hunt’s opaque and secretive reorganisation of the NHS, which is being drawn up behind closed doors at this very moment through sustainability and transformation plans”.
  • (15) Why do some men – Andrew Neil joked about being "madder than a box of Nadine Dorrieses" – feel able to laugh at her in so unbridled a fashion?
  • (16) "I don't think they're any madder than Jeremy Paxman or John Humphrys!"
  • (17) Camp is made in a dune's hollow and we go even madder.
  • (18) The differential diagnosis of the condition is discussed: especially the hydrolethalus syndrome, and the Young and Madders' syndrome reported in 1987.
  • (19) Obama – whom a spokesman last week described as “madder than hell” about the VA scandal – was delivering his weekly address on the first day of the long Memorial Day weekend.
  • (20) Two main coloring constituents in the commercial madder color were isolated and identified as ruberthric acid and lucidin-3-O-primeveroside.

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