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badly

English

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

Spanish

  1. 🔊 culero badly
  2. 🔊 malamente badly, poorly
  3. 🔊 mal badly, poorly, ill

Similar words

ill poorly ill disadvantageously severely gravely seriously bad bad mischievously naughtily afield amiss astray atrociously awfully awry carelessly critically cruelly damagingly dangerously defectively deficiently