What's the difference between badder and padder?

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.

Padder


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, pads.
  • (n.) A highwayman; a footpad.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, paddles.

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