badly
adjEtymology From Middle English badly, baddely, baddeliche, equivalent to bad + -ly.
1
Northern England Ill, unwell.
- He's never badly.
badly
adv/ˈbæd.li/
Etymology From Middle English badly, baddely, baddeliche, equivalent to bad + -ly.
1
In a bad manner.
- 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.
2 more examples
- 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...2005, Cathy Hopkins, The Mates, Dates Guide to Life, Love, and Looking Luscious:
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Very much; to a great degree.
- I want it so badly.
- Look at these split ends! You badly need a haircut!
3 more examples
- 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, […].1958 January 23, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:
- In late 1970, Labour assumed the shadow posts, having lost badly (and unforeseenly) in the summer General Election.2008, Darl Larsen, Monty Python's Flying Circus, page 276:
- Derived terms
- badly off, badly-off, badly packed kebab