badly

adverb/ˈbædli/

Frequency rank: #2,279 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

In a way that is poor in quality; or seriously.

Illustration for the English word “badly”

Example sentence

She played the piano very badly during the concert.

Synonyms & related words

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