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Badly   /bˈædli/   Listen
Badly

adverb
1.
To a severe or serious degree.  Synonyms: gravely, seriously, severely.  "Badly injured" , "A severely impaired heart" , "Is gravely ill" , "Was seriously ill"
2.
('ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well.  Synonyms: ill, poorly.  "It ill befits a man to betray old friends" , "The car runs badly" , "He performed badly on the exam" , "The team played poorly" , "Ill-fitting clothes" , "An ill-conceived plan"
3.
Evilly or wickedly.  "To steal is to act badly"
4.
In a disobedient or naughty way.  Synonyms: mischievously, naughtily.  "He mischievously looked for a chance to embarrass his sister" , "Behaved naughtily when they had guests and was sent to his room"
5.
With great intensity ('bad' is a nonstandard variant for 'badly').  Synonym: bad.  "The buildings were badly shaken" , "It hurts bad" , "We need water bad"
6.
Very much; strongly.  Synonym: bad.  "The cables had sagged badly" , "They were badly in need of help" , "He wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it"
7.
Without skill or in a displeasing manner.  "I think he paints very badly"
8.
In a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage.  Synonym: disadvantageously.  "Angry that the case was settled disadvantageously for them"
9.
Unfavorably or with disapproval.  Synonym: ill.  "Thought badly of him for his lack of concern"
10.
With unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional display.  "Took her father's death badly" , "Conducted himself very badly at the time of the earthquake"





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"Badly" Quotes from Famous Books



... feeling, after giving this certificate. It might be all right enough; but if it happened to end badly, I should always reproach myself. There was a chance, certainly, that it would lead him or others into danger or wretchedness. Any one who looked at this young man could not fail to see that he was capable of fascinating and being fascinated. ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... badly beaten in some back room of a saloon and carried out into a vacant lot and left there. He lay there all that night and all the next day. Probably he would have died there had not ...
— The Rustlers of Pecos County • Zane Grey
... feet apart. We cannot take out every other tree and have any order, so we ask you if it would be possible to cut the trees back and keep them pruned down to a smaller size. The trees are about 20 years old and are dying back quite badly. ...
— One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered • E.J. Wickson
... when Jed's raw-hide had fallen over its head it was necessary to renforce the lariat with two others. Finally the pony had to be flung down before a saddle could be put on. When Siegfried, who had been kneeling on its head, stepped back, the outlaw staggered to its feet, already badly shaken, to find an incubus clamped to ...
— A Texas Ranger • William MacLeod Raine
... Ilse quickly, "I ask your pardon, but America, also, is badly infested by these people. As their Black Plague spreads out over the entire world, so spread out the Bolsheviki to infect all with the red sickness ...
— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers


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