badly
/ˈbæd.li/ adverb A2- 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.
- Very much; to a great degree. · I want it so badly.· Look at these split ends! You badly need a haircut!
Comparative worse · Superlative worst
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A man-trained boy would have been badly bruised, for the fall was a good fifteen feet, but Mowgli fell as Baloo had taught him to fall, and landed on his feet.
So I don’t think you’re very badly off to see her again.”
“You oughtn’t to feel half as badly as I do,” said Anne, hunting vainly for a dry spot on her handkerchief.
“That may make me feel badly tomorrow, Josie,” laughed Anne, “but just now I honestly feel that as long as I know the violets are coming out all purple down in the hollow below Green Gables and that little ferns are poking their heads up in Lovers’ Lane, it’s not a great deal of difference whether I win the Avery or not.
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