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badly, adv.|ˈbædlɪ|
In 3–4 baddeliche.
[f. bad a. + -ly2.]
1. In a manner below the proper standard; poorly, insufficiently, defectively.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 498 Yuel y-clothed..Badly y⁓bedded. 1393Ibid. C. v. 55 He is bold to borwe · and badde⁓lich he payeþ. 1838Dickens O. Twist (1850) 199/1 A mean and badly-furnished apartment. 1856Kane Arct. Exp. II. iv. 50 We are so badly off for strong arms.
2. Unfortunately, unluckily, unsuccessfully.
1297R. Glouc. 566 So longe hom spedde baddeliche. 1595Shakes. John v. iii. 2 How goes the day with vs? Hub. Badly, I feare. 1883Law Times 20 Oct. 407/2 A great improvement upon the former rules..which worked badly.
3. Incorrectly, faultily.
1836–9Todd Cycl. Anat. II. 783/2 Badly-formed bones. 1849Ruskin Sev. Lamps ii. §14 So great a painter..would never paint badly enough to deceive. Mod. He speaks English very badly.
4. Immorally, wickedly, viciously, improperly.
c1440Promp. Parv. 20/2 Badly or wykkydly, Male, inique. 1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 176 Badly-diligent ministers, who often cloyed our eares with her prayses. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. ix, xlvi. 218 Labouring their Mischiefes farre and neere, Whilst Eccho and Narcissus are more badly busie heere. 1879E. Davidson in Cassell's Techn. Educ. I. 202/2 Indolent, irregular, and badly-conducted pupils.
5. So as to cause pain, danger, disgrace or harm of any kind; cruelly, unkindly, dangerously, noxiously, disagreeably, etc.
1799E. Stanley in Duncan Nelson (1806) 112 The French behaved very badly to them. 1828Southey in Q. Rev. XXXVIII. 207 One of the Indian chiefs was badly wounded. 1884Manch. Exam. 21 May 4/7 The Lancashire County Eleven were badly beaten.
6. colloq. with ‘need, want’ = Much, greatly.
Mod. I wanted to see you very badly.
7. dial. quasi-adj. Unwell, indisposed, in ill health.
1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell), Badly, Malè se habens. 1821Mrs. Wheeler Westmrld. Dial. 45, I wur terrable feard a meaakin mesel badly agayn. 1915D. H. Lawrence Rainbow ii. 65 ‘I want my mother.’..‘Ay, but she's badly.’ 1966A. E. Lindop I start Counting i. 18 Your Aunt Rene Tindall says she's been badly again. |