Sentence examples for backfired very badly from inspiring English sources

Pope John Paul II never flinched from a fight; Pope Francis doesn't back down either, but he has consistently attempted to work around his opponents ever since his experiments in autocracy as a young Jesuit backfired very badly on him.

"But you know, this man who wants to rule by the use of a pen, a telephone, let us not forget his teleprompter … the fact is that it would backfire very badly and we've got to be grownups and accept that we can't have everything we want, you know, [like] his head on a skewer".

His behaviour "has been very badly received [in the party], it is hurtful and might backfire on him one day".

He misbehaved badly, very badly.

Very, very badly.

"It burned very badly".

I feel very badly.

"It went down very badly.

Munsey treated people very badly.

We treat coffee very badly.

"We live very badly.