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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

... exactly the year and the month when you first met Mrs. Ogilvie? There are various formalities to be gone through, in connection with Captain Ogilvie's accession to the property, which necessitate hunting up family records, and these have been very badly kept in the Ogilvie family. Also, may I say this to you in confidence? There was an idea in many people's minds that, about the time of Colonel Ogilvie's death and the early infancy of the second son, Peter, Mrs. Ogilvie's mind was slightly unhinged for a time. It may not have been so, ...

— Peter and Jane - or The Missing Heir • S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan

... before I cease to believe in them, but I do get some disillusions. At Antwerp not a man remained with us, and the worst of it was they made elaborate excuses for leaving. Even our sergeant, who helped during the night, took a comrade off in the morning and disappeared. Both were wounded, but not badly, and two young English Tommies, very slightly wounded, left us as soon as the firing began. We saw them afterwards at the bridge, and they looked ...

— My War Experiences in Two Continents • Sarah Macnaughtan

... badly with him since his marriage. He was apt, when thinking over his affairs, to attribute all this to the fears and hesitation and parsimony of Sexty Parker. None of his late ventures with Sexty Parker had been successful. And now Sexty was in a bad condition, ...

— The Prime Minister • Anthony Trollope

... been sleeping badly again; partly the heat, partly the clash of sensations within him. This morning, after hours of tossing and dozing and dreaming—not the right kind of dreams at all,—he was up and out before sunrise, forsaking the bed that betrayed ...

— Far to Seek - A Romance of England and India • Maud Diver

... have company the children behave so badly. There it goes again. Myntje, go and see what's the matter and tell ...

— Walter Pieterse - A Story of Holland • Multatuli

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