badly

Definition

  • adverb: in a bad manner
  • synonyms: afield, amiss, astray

Examples

  • Thanks to the money my uncle left me, I'm not 'badly off'. [=I'm pretty well off]

  • I felt unwell, but I wasn't so 'badly off' that I had to stay home from work.

  • We were so 'badly off' [='poor, broke'] we couldn't afford a bus ticket.

Movie quotes

  • (..) A beacon of progress on the horizon of humanity... but a cruel and barbarous civilization just the same. I just hope Penny isn't suffering too badly. I got it. What are you doing here? We have come to take you home. Ugh! What's the Egyptian word for "tattletale"? (..)
    2014 Mr. Peabody & Sherman