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  "id": "bad.moral",
  "term": "bad",
  "sense": "moral",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "bad",
  "domain": "",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a quality that is not good",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "good.moral",
      "difference.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "Being different from good creates a quality that is not good",
    "novel_properties": [
      "negative evaluation",
      "undesirable quality"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2003 Northeast blackout spread across eight U.S. states and Ontario when a software bug in an Ohio control room failed to flag overgrown trees on power lines.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Leaked emails from the 2016 Democratic National Committee revealed systemic bias against Bernie Sanders’s campaign in favor of Hillary Clinton.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The FTX cryptocurrency exchange collapsed in 2022 after auditors found $8 billion missing from customer accounts.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "quality.value",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "good.moral",
      "note": "contrasts with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "bad"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-bad.moral"
}