badly
adverb
1 badly
To a severe or serious degree:
— Fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated.
— Badly injured.
2 badly
`ill' is often used as a combining form In a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well:
— The car runs badly.
— He performed badly on the exam.
Roget 649: badly etc. adj.; wrong, ill; to one's cost; where the shoe pinches.
3 badly
Evilly or wickedly.
4 badly
In a disobedient or naughty way:
— He behaved badly in school.
synonyms: mischievously, naughtily.
5 badly
With great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly'):
— The injury hurt badly.
— The buildings were badly shaken.
synonym: bad.
6 badly
Very much; strongly:
— I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it.
— The cables had sagged badly.
— They were badly in need of help.
synonym: bad.
7 badly
Without skill or in a displeasing manner.
8 badly
In a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage:
— The venture turned out badly for the investors.
synonym: disadvantageously.
9 badly
Unfavorably or with disapproval:
— Thought badly of him for his lack of concern.
synonym: ill.
10 badly
With unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional display.
Moby thesaurus: afield, amiss, astray, atrociously, awfully, awry, carelessly, critically, cruelly, damagingly, dangerously, defectively, deficiently, distressfully, dreadfully, emotionally, erroneously, faultily, gravely, greatly ... show more.
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