bad
/bæd/ adverb C2- Badly; poorly. · I didn't do too bad in the last exam.· He is quite bad off now that both his parents lost their jobs.
- Badly; severely, extremely, passionately, eagerly. · Please come back, baby. I miss you so bad!
Comparative worse · Superlative worst
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“That was too bad,” said Dorothy, “but really I think we were lucky in not doing these little people more harm than breaking a cow’s leg and a church.
“It is certainly too bad!” said the tender-hearted Woodman.
I am aware he is a furious royalist; but, in spite of that, and of his being king’s attorney, he is a man like ourselves, and I fancy not a bad sort of one.”
“Oz was not such a bad Wizard, after all,” said the Tin Woodman, as he felt his heart rattling around in his breast.
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