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badly   (TTS Sound)

The adv badly has 10 senses

• badly, severely, gravely, seriously -- (to a severe or serious degree; "fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated"; "badly injured"; "a severely impaired heart"; "is gravely ill"; "was seriously ill")


• ill, badly, poorly -- ((`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")


• badly -- (evilly or wickedly; "treated his parents badly"; "to steal is to act badly")


• badly, mischievously, naughtily -- (in a disobedient or naughty way; "he behaved badly in school"; "he mischievously looked for a chance to embarrass his sister"; "behaved naughtily when they had guests and was sent to his room")


• badly, bad -- (with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly'); "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were badly shaken"; "it hurts bad"; "we need water bad")


• badly, bad -- (very much; strongly; "I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it"; "the cables had sagged badly"; "they were badly in need of help"; "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it")


• badly -- (without skill or in a displeasing manner; "she writes badly"; "I think he paints very badly")


• badly, disadvantageously -- (in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage; "the venture turned out badly for the investors"; "angry that the case was settled disadvantageously for them")


• ill, badly -- (unfavorably or with disapproval; "tried not to speak ill of the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern")


• badly -- (with unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional display; "they took their defeat badly"; "took her father's death badly"; "conducted himself very badly at the time of the earthquake")