badly

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1. badly - Adjective

2. badly - Adverb

In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly; unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm; disagreeably; seriously.

Source: Webster's dictionary

ill poorly severely awfully dreadfully seriously terribly gravely ineptly abominably incompetently naughtily harshly crudely inadequately

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well fortunately luckily benny just right

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behave badly badly dressed do badly badly shaken badly damage badly timed

blady baldy Dabyl Dalby Dybal

One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say. Voltaire

That man lives badly who does not know how to die well. Seneca

Never listen to people who speak badly of others and good of you. Leo Tolstoy

A dressed up lie is worth more than a badly told truth. Lebanese Proverb

The rich man never dances badly. Rwandan Proverb

Communism is a cow of many; well milked and badly fed. Spanish Proverb

Badlands National Park Badley badling badly armed badly arranged badly attempt