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Meaning badly meaning

What does badly mean?

Definitions in simple English

badly Adverb

— In a bad way.

badly Adjective

— Sick, ill or not healthy.

badly

— adverb (= severely, gravely, seriously) to a severe or serious degree fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated badly injured a severely impaired heart is gravely ill was seriously ill — adverb (= ill, poorly) ('ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well he was ill prepared 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 — adverb with unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional display they took their defeat badly took her father's death badly conducted himself very badly at the time of the earthquake — adverb (= disadvantageously) in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage the venture turned out badly for the investors angry that the case was settled disadvantageously for them — adverb without skill or in a displeasing manner she writes badly I think he paints very badly — adverb (= bad) with great intensity ('bad' is a nonstandard variant for 'badly') the injury hurt badly the buildings were badly shaken it hurts bad we need water bad — adverb (= mischievously, naughtily) in a disobedient or naughty way he behaved badly in school he mischievously looked for a chance to embarrass his sister behaved naughtily when they had guests and was sent to his room — adverb evilly or wickedly treated his parents badly to steal is to act badly — adverb (= bad) 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 he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it — adverb (= ill) unfavorably or with disapproval tried not to speak ill of the dead thought badly of him for his lack of concern

Synonyms badly synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as badly?

badly English » English

bad poorly ill severely seriously naughtily wrongly terribly gravely wrong mischievously grievously greatly carelessly with difficulty very much unimpressively miserably incorrectly improperly horribly hard to do hard extremely disadvantageously deplorably bitterly amiss wrongfully wretched worst worse without style without dignity wickedly weightily weakly violently vilely viciously very utterly urgent unwell untidily unsatisfactorily unrighteously unproperly unkindly unjustly

Topics badly topics

What do people use badly to talk about?

Language and thought Think Opinion

Sleep

What words are used of a bad sleep?

sleep poorly sleep badly sleep fitfully

States Quantity Enough

Need

What words refer to needing something very much?

be desperate for be crying out for can't do without be dependent on depend on rely on be reliant on badly need

States Time Relative time

Right time

What words describe something happening at the wrong time?

badly-timed ill-timed come at the wrong time at a bad time inopportune

Examples badly examples

How do I use badly in a sentence?

Simple sentences

She is badly off.

Tom seems to want this as badly as I do.

How badly injured is Tom?

The first jump ended badly.

Tom treats his dog badly.

Tom came out very badly.

I miss you badly.

We will miss you badly.

Don't speak badly of him in his absence.

I saw at a glance that the empty house was badly in need of repair.

It would be unfair if we treated him so badly.

I've been badly bitten by mosquitoes.

I'm sorry that you've been badly injured.

Doctor Burns, what should doctors do when a patient's brain is badly damaged?

Tom was badly injured in a traffic accident.

Those peasants badly need land to grow rice.

The notice was badly printed.

They were badly off in the village.

Our company pays badly.

I will badly miss you if you leave Japan.

We are badly in need of food.

I am badly in need of your help.

I want some coffee badly.

My arm is hurting badly.

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I don't need the money that badly.

Her lungs are getting really badly compressed.

My boy is badly hurt.

I hope you boys are not too badly wounded.

Maybe he wasn't hurt badly.

Are you badly hurt?

The old man'll be locked-up, and they'll need us here badly.

Look here, Doctor, I need money very badly.

Poor Baron, he wanted money so badly.

After what happened, you need rest badly.

I didn't do so badly for a little girl from Quincy, Illinois, eh, ducky?

YOUR EXCELLENCY, OUR MEN ARE BEING BADLY BEATEN IN OPEN WARFARE.

Belinha, my head aches so badly.

Judging by your stripes, you didn't do too badly during these hard times.

You didn't do too badly during these hard times.

Either their herds destroy it, or they badly farm it.

And he was beaten so badly that he died on the same day.

Don't think badly of me, Duke. After all I don't know what happens to me.

Is he badly hurt?

Is he badly wounded?

You want to die so badly?

You're not so badly off.

When I'm abused or badly used, I always get my man.

I need him almost as badly as you do.

I dont deserve that. I know I behaved badly.

He is this kid who wants so badly to be popular and just. just be noticed.

Is it because I treated you badly once?

I was merely behaving badly.

You couldn't behave badly.

I don't want to behave badly.

Our men are being badly beaten.

Well, he's pretty badly shaken up.

When I did need your help, and badly, what'd you do?

But I dance badly.

News and current affairs

But a new aspiration toward social and economic equality, and international solidarity, is badly needed.

The first flaw is that the spending reductions are badly timed: coming as they do when the US economy is weak, they risk triggering another recession.

First, the US labor market is failing so badly that expanded government spending carries no resource cost to society as a whole.

Moreover, poorer regions would do badly in such a system.

For Murray, it is that social insurance means that behaving badly does not lead to catastrophe - and we need bad behavior to lead to catastrophe in order to keep people from behaving badly.

They buried the bad mortgages in complicated instruments, buried them so deep that no one knew exactly how badly they were impaired, and no one could calculate how to re-price them quickly.

Now it has responded, with a stimulus package that is too little, too late, and badly designed.

However badly bankers have behaved - and some clearly deserve a decade or more in the sin bin - financial services are a crucial element of London's economy.

Thanks to years of economic mismanagement, Argentina's economy has been badly underperforming for decades.

But how long and deep will this recession be, and how badly will it affect emerging and developing nations?

Yet the policy is backfiring on the US and badly hurting the world.

While climate, geography, and the colonial past share some of the blame for today's misery, most of the responsibility belongs to those African governments that have behaved so badly.

When the inevitable British devaluation came on September 20-21, 1931, many foreign central banks were badly hit and were blamed for mismanaging their reserves.

Europe is being cautious in the name of avoiding debt and defending the euro, whereas the US has moved on many fronts in order not to waste an ideal opportunity to implement badly needed structural reforms.

The new Commission, which its president, Jean Claude Juncker, has restructured significantly, could provide Europe with the strategic leadership it so badly needs.

While this fact alone will not quiet opponents of immigration, it does give countries more breathing room to repair and strengthen badly broken systems for receiving and integrating newcomers.

Most of all, Obama is badly served on trade by his senior colleagues.

The UN has been useful as a forum for adopting standards, but its machinery for seeking compliance with those standards is weak and has been badly compromised over the years by its failure to address grotesque abuses.

How badly the financial crisis damaged the reputation and performance of the major Western centers is a question increasingly asked in London, and to a lesser extent in New York.

From the first day, the media understood that they had badly misread the public mood.

People who are not paying attention and are just not active will simply remain in the plan, while those who want badly enough to opt out can do so by writing a letter.

Even Chinese liberals admit that Western journalists blundered badly in Tibet, using cropped images and false captions as evidence of China's heavy-handed rule.

But they might be radicalized by the prospect of inheriting a badly damaged ecosystem.

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