Sentence examples for badly playing from inspiring English sources

I was not bookish; I spent most of my time playing sports badly, playing cards a little better, and lusting after girls and cars.

Quentin made her name in hit BBC comedy Men Behaving Badly playing the long-suffering girlfriend of Gary, played by Martin Clunes.

Paul Beattie New York, March 9, 2008 • To the Editor: Being married to a musician for 18 years, I fail to see either the humor in the Really Terrible Orchestra, the badly playing band described in "And the Band Played Badly".

There then came the sound of a recorder, badly played.

O.K. ME: [Ugh. Badly played, Chris.] You want to check it out?

"My music is not modern," Arnold Schoenberg used to say, "it is merely badly played".

He and the orchestra apparently aren't getting along, as last month's helter-skelter, badly played "Otello" suggested.

For all the romance attached to his death a year later, Sutcliffe's was always a badly played bit part.

The Bettman era of boring hockey badly played, with a persistent soupçon of violence, has endured here for far too long.

Woodbridge town centre manager Neil Boast said shop workers had become tired of hearing "badly" played renditions from performers with a "limited repertoire".

"I'm laughing at myself for how badly I played".