Sentence examples for Badly from inspiring English sources

The word "badly" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to describe the intensity of an action or describe how someone feel about something. Example: She was badly hurt in the accident.

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Badly

adverb

In a bad manner.

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It was a ridiculous idea dreamed up by his advisers who have served him badly.

"It went down very badly.

He was badly beaten.

"Under the previous government immigration was far too high and badly out of control.

And, alas, two weeks after I had berated the JW Anderson sales assistant for not stocking a blue and white striped menswear shirt I wanted badly on its womenswear rails.

That defeat to Kumkhum last year hurt badly, Kvitova said, but it may also have helped her dig deeper to find the form that won her another Wimbledon.

The former certainly looks like a prizefighter who has been battered senseless by a meaner, leaner opponent; the latter has endured an equally bruising encounter in the ring but has walked away bleeding badly but still standing after a 12-round points draw.

"I thought he was extremely badly treated, the way they bundled him out.

These turned the story of the band into a surreal sitcom, casting them as a hapless odd couple – Spinal Tap meets Men Behaving Badly.

Derek Bardowell of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, who has managed mentor programmes in the past, has a word of caution: "Many people do it [mentoring] quite badly.

An impoverished country of 3.2 million, Armenia was badly affected by the global downturn.

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