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badly
English
- 🔊 with unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional display“they took their defeat badly”
- 🔊 in a disadvantageous way“the venture turned out badly for the investors”
- 🔊 without skill or in a displeasing manner“she writes badly”
- 🔊 to a severe or serious degree“fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated”
- 🔊 very much“I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it”
- 🔊 with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly')“the injury hurt badly”
- 🔊 in a disobedient or naughty way“he behaved badly in school”
- 🔊 evilly or wickedly“treated his parents badly”
- 🔊 (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner“he was ill prepared”
- 🔊 unfavorably or with disapproval“tried not to speak ill of the dead”
Spanish
- 🔊 culero badly
- 🔊 malamente badly, poorly
- 🔊 mal badly, poorly, ill