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badly

adverb

1 badly

To a severe or serious degree:
— Fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated.
— Badly injured.

synonyms: gravely, seriously, severely.

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.

synonyms: ill, poorly.

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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