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Discover LudwigThe phrase "almost badly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where something is nearly done poorly or inadequately, but not quite.
Example: "The presentation was almost badly received, but a few audience members appreciated the effort."
Alternatives: "nearly poorly" or "close to badly".
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Never mind romantic comedies, gross-out comedies or ghostbusting comedies: over the past five years, they have been outnumbered by comedies concerning respectable thirty and fortysomething professionals loosening their ties, letting their hair down and behaving almost badly.
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Yet the euro area is struggling almost as badly.
It went almost as badly as possible: he was told he would be arrested.
And Hungary, outside the euro, has done almost as badly as Slovenia, within it.
In France, amusement is regarded almost as badly as commercial success.
(The Australian woman fared almost as badly; only Sam Stosur survived the first round).
Both native New Yorkers, they craved a house almost as badly as they did children.
Ford and Chrysler fared almost as badly, with declines of 48%and44%4% respectively.
Almost as badly affected was the centrist National Trust (NT) party, led by Mehdi Karrubi, the former parliamentary speaker.
But Peter Baker, the former Walker and Ryder Cup player, began almost as badly as Chapman, and failed to recover.
The Kings, meanwhile, had drubbed the hottest team in the league, the Mavericks, almost as badly, 123-94.
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