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Meaning of badly

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  badly
      adv 1: 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"
             [syn: {badly}, {severely}, {gravely}, {seriously}]
      2: (`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" [syn: {ill}, {badly}, {poorly}] [ant: {good}, {well}]
      3: evilly or wickedly; "treated his parents badly"; "to steal is
         to act badly"
      4: 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" [syn: {badly}, {mischievously},
         {naughtily}]
      5: 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" [syn: {badly},
         {bad}]
      6: 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"
         [syn: {badly}, {bad}]
      7: without skill or in a displeasing manner; "she writes badly";
         "I think he paints very badly" [ant: {well}]
      8: 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" [syn: {badly},
         {disadvantageously}] [ant: {advantageously}, {well}]
      9: unfavorably or with disapproval; "tried not to speak ill of
         the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern"
         [syn: {ill}, {badly}] [ant: {well}]
      10: 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" [ant: {well}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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