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Meaning poorly meaning

What does poorly mean?

poorly

— adverb (= ill, badly) ('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 — adjective (= ailing, indisposed, peaked, sickly, unwell) somewhat ill or prone to illness my poor ailing grandmother feeling a bit indisposed today you look a little peaked feeling poorly a sickly child is unwell and can't come to work

Synonyms poorly synonyms

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badly bad weakly under the weather seedy ill horribly awfully unwell sickly sick peaked miserably ailing unsatisfactorily unhealthy not well niggardly meanly insufficiently indisposed carelessly badness wrongly wretchedly woefully untidily unsuitably unsuccessfully unsatisfactory unimpressively tawdrily stupidly sparsely sorrowfully sore sloppily shabby shabbily scantiness scantily painful not very well naughtily moderation mean insecurely inadequately harmless garishly

Topics poorly topics

What do people use poorly to talk about?

Person Healthy

Sleep

What words are used of a bad sleep?

sleep poorly sleep badly sleep fitfully

Work and occupation Work Method

Work poorly

What words refer to working poorly?

work poorly work slowly do a bad job mess up on the job slipshod sloppy

Examples poorly examples

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Simple sentences

A healthy person is a poorly examined sick person.

My watch works poorly.

Don't despise a man just because he is poorly dressed.

You should not despise a man just because he is poorly paid.

With a hand full of bills, a poorly dressed old man, whose voice quavered, asked whether he could settle his bills here.

That work is poorly done.

She felt ashamed of her mother, a poorly clad woman, who picked up wood in the forest.

I'm sorry I speak your beautiful language so poorly!

It's no wonder Tom's sleeping poorly; he drinks up to twelve cups of coffee a day.

She felt poorly.

That house was so poorly built that no floors were level and no walls were plumb.

I speak it very poorly.

Tom did poorly in his classes.

Xavier speaks English very poorly.

Unskilled labor is poorly paid.

As always, you have understood poorly!

Ford was poorly educated.

The lubrication system was poorly designed.

It's better to do nothing than to do something poorly.

He is poorly educated.

Your work is poorly organized.

I speak Esperanto very poorly.

I did it poorly.

I speak French very poorly.

Movie subtitles

The Councillor's daughter dressed so poorly?

She's doing very poorly.

I may. have reacted poorly. before.

Only, Miss Melly, she feel kind of poorly now it's all over.

Sort of poorly.

We have been more poorly housed, the kid and me.

Almost every capital like New York, Paris, London hides, behind its wealth, poverty-stricken homes where poorly-fed children, deprived of health or school, are doomed to criminality.

Yes, I scold myself for praying so little and so poorly.

I'm afraid you must think poorly of me.

My leg is feeling poorly.

A poorly made bed means 20 baton blows.

And I'm feeling poorly myself.

Are you feeling poorly?

Bouboule has behaved quite poorly.

It hurt him to see his children left on their own, his home poorly cared for.

Thank you kindly, but she ain't well. - Sort of poorly.

He does look poorly. The poor dear.

I won't say I did my job poorly. The evidence shoved him into the chair.

Absolutely. You have to treat women poorly.

You bargain poorly, Herr Ullman.

I express myself poorly.

We're doing poorly enough afloat.

You must excuse me, dear, I'm feeling, feeling rather poorly.

I've been feeling poorly all day, sir.

It was Mr MacPherson, he said that he was feeling poorly and that he wouldn't be around to see you, but he'd go straight home to bed.

Nearly poorly enough to be believable.

IS SHE VERY POORLY, SIR?

Do you feel poorly, Mr. Keenan?

I hear Mrs. McCanles has been feeling kind of poorly.

It must be a very poorly balanced applecart to upset so easily.

No, been a bit poorly all day.

Many social problems forcing our children to eat poorly, restrict the means of treatment.

Is this neoclassic tragedy the result of a poorly sewn button?

Yours looks poorly.

He looks poorly.

You know me poorly.

They eat poorly.

News and current affairs

The data are uncertain: there have been many thousands of spills during this period - often poorly documented and their magnitude hidden or simply unmeasured by either the companies or the government.

Usually, conspiracy theories surface where people are poorly educated and a rigorous independent press is lacking.

Reforms that succeed in one setting may perform poorly or fail completely in others.

With international aid poorly coordinated and the United States reducing its troop strength, many Afghans believe that the outside world is abandoning them.

Early biologists and agriculturists carried out selection for desired traits, generating poorly understood changes in the organisms' genetic material.

As a result, he will be poorly placed to handle the challenges ahead, the most intractable of which will be the European Union's new Constitution.

Second, the needed science will not emerge from the poorly financed laboratories and universities of developing countries.

Russia's continuing demographic problems will also make it difficult for the armed forces to become a fully professional military, one that does not depend on poorly motivated conscripts.

True, cancer deaths have dropped chiefly because of long-delayed - and still poorly supported - efforts to curb smoking.

Recent revelations that many corporate executives have backdated their stock options, ensuring excessive compensation even when their companies perform poorly, are merely the latest in a stream of examples of bad business behavior.

As poorly as the Fed performed in the years preceding the Lehman Brothers' collapse, it performed splendidly well afterward, by flooding the markets with liquidity to break the panic.

Unfortunately, financial analysts are usually poorly trained in economics.

The impact of such cuts on aggregate demand is almost always modest, and they are poorly suited for shifting expectations for recovery and growth in the post-financial-crisis downturn.

A study of the sources of economic growth by the OECD has brought together a formidable set of data and with it new views about who is doing well and who poorly.

But their exclusive, rigid ideology was poorly suited to governing such a large and diverse country.

LONDON - The Greek debt problem has been poorly handled by Europe's decision-makers.

It, too, conducted an official inquiry, establishing the Macmillan Committee to hear evidence about how poorly British banks served British industry, and how the German model did a much better job at converting savings into industrial finance.

This is not a problem of immigration as such, but of poorly designed domestic social and labor market institutions.

Why does Africa continue to perform poorly, despite two decades of structural reform?

China's growth would be more efficient if these proportions changed in favor of education, including vocational training, which is very poorly developed.

In one case, environmental activists took villagers from a proposed dam site to another town to see firsthand how poorly others had fared in the dam resettlement process.

Turning backward and inward to the original six EU members is unlikely to meet such concerns, and augurs poorly for the liberalization of labor markets that Europe's economies need to get moving.

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