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Found 3 hits - Term: badly, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
badly \bad"ly\, adv.
   in a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly;
   unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm; disagreeably;
   seriously.
   1913 webster

   note: badly is often used colloquially for very much or very
         greatly, with words signifying to want or need.
         1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
badly
     adv 1: 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"
            syn: severely, gravely, seriously
     2: `ill' is often used as a combining form in a poor or
        improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well; "he was ill
        prepared"; "it ill befits a man to betray old friends";
        "the car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam";
        "the team played poorly"; "ill-fitting clothes"; "an
        ill-conceived plan" syn: ill, poorly ant: well
     3: evilly or wickedly; "treated his parents badly"; "to steal
        is to act badly"
     4: 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" syn: mischievously, naughtily
     5: 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" syn: bad
     6: 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" syn: bad
     7: without skill or in a displeasing manner; "she writes
        badly"; "i think he paints very badly" ant: well
     8: 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" syn: disadvantageously
        ant: well, well
     9: unfavorably or with disapproval; "tried not to speak ill of
        the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern"
        syn: ill ant: well
     10: 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" ant: well
see also:
severely gravely seriously ill poorly well 
mischievously naughtily bad disadvantageously 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
55 moby thesaurus words for "badly":
   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





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Family court, lawyers, judges and a narcissist impoverish parents in a custody ...
...it's another lawsuit, if not from Ram or Yaaqui Sharkani, his lawyer, ... I'm not talking about my ex-husband after how badly he has hurt us.  I ... ..
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