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Exact Match:

badly

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"

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"

without skill or in a displeasing manner; "she writes badly"; "I think he paints very badly"

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"

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"

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"

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"

evilly or wickedly; "treated his parents badly"; "to steal is to act badly"

Synonyms:

• afield,
• amiss,
• astray,
• atrociously,
• awfully,
• awry,
• carelessly,
• critically,
• cruelly,
• damagingly,
• dangerously,
• defectively,
• deficiently,
• distressfully,
• dreadfully,
• emotionally,
• erroneously,
• faultily,
• gravely,
• greatly,
• grievously,
• hard,
• hardly,
• harshly,
• horribly,
• improperly,
• inaccurately,
• inadequately,
• inartistically,
• incorrectly,
• ineptly,
• insufficiently,
• mischievously,
• painfully,
• poorly,
• roughly,
• seriously,
• severely,
• shamefully,
• shoddily,
• unacceptably,
• unfavorably,
• unfortunately,
• unkindly,
• unluckily,
• unsatisfactorily,
• unspeakably,
• unsuccessfully,
• very much,
• viciously,
• vigorously,
• villainously,
• wickedly,
• wretchedly,
• wrong