baddish

[ bad-ish ]

/ ˈbæd ɪʃ /

rather bad; not very good.

Origin of baddish

First recorded in 1745–55; bad¹ + -ish¹

The baddish boy had obtained them in his sister's name and at her expense, at the flesher's, and claimed credit for his affection.

Christie Johnstone |Charles Reade
The baddish boy chuckled, and addressed himself to the nice brown steaks with their rich gravy.

Christie Johnstone |Charles Reade
Well, we were in a baddish way before he came, I own; but this new crotchet of his is past a joke.

Tom Brown's School Days |Thomas Hughes
A baddish wrench parting from de Robeck and Keyes with whom I have been close friends for so long.

Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 |Ian Hamilton

Archbishop thereupon gives absolution of his sins; Archbishop does,—a baddish, unlikely kind of man, as August well knows.

History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. IX. (of XXI.) |Thomas Carlyle