badly

adverb

bad·ly ˈbad-lē

Synonyms of badly next

: in a bad manner

played badly

: to a great or intense degree

want something badly

Phrases

badly off for

British

: strongly in need of (something or someone)

It may seem pie in the sky in the current financial climate, but few could argue that for a city of its size and prestige, Edinburgh is badly off for large-scale sports facilities.—

The Evening News (Edinburgh)

not badly

: fairly or acceptably well

The economy is doing not badly and looks even better than it really is.—

Tom Teepen

think badly of

: to have an unfavorable or low opinion of (someone or something)

"You shouldn't think badly of the town because of this," said Brogan. "It is a good town."—

Neil Gaiman

Examples of badly in a Sentence

He played badly but I played even worse. The failure reflects badly on the administration. She wanted the job badly. I'm badly in need of a vacation. His fingers were badly frozen.

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Boeing bungled its recent mission to ferry astronauts to the ISS so badly that SpaceX has at least a temporary monopoly over astronaut launches from American soil. —

Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024 Jourdain needed the win badly and got the $50,000 bonus. —

Brian Mazique, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024 Adding to Bacon’s challenges is the fact that Trump is badly trailing Harris in the district, at least according to a recent New York Times/Siena College poll that found the GOP presidential nominee behind by 12 points. —

Filip Timotija, The Hill, 3 Nov. 2024 Even Burgess acknowledges how badly the state needed to modernize its voter registration system. —

Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for badly