Badly

/ˈbæd.li/ · adverb

Meaning

In a bad manner..

Definitions by Sense

1. In a bad manner.
2. Very much; to a great degree.
3. (Northern England) Ill, unwell.

Example Sentences

Things are going badly for her: she did badly in her exams owing to a badly designed studying schedule.

Don't think badly of me, give me the benefit of the doubt.

I feel badly about the accident because it was entirely our fault.

You can eat badly and feel crapola or eat healthily and feel great. The choice is yours...

I want it so badly.

Look at these split ends! You badly need a haircut!

Everything went badly wrong.

The task was made trebly difficult, however, by the badly run-down condition in which the railways of Britain had been unavoidably left at the end of the war in 1945, […].

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Word Forms

• worse
• worst
• more badly
• most badly

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