Bad
Bad adverb - In an unsatisfactory way.
Usage example: you didn't do too bad on the treadmill test
Disastrously and bad are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Disastrously" instead an adverb "Bad".
Disastrously
Disastrously adverb - In a disastrous manner.
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Synonyms for Disastrously
Bad and disastrously are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bad" instead an adverb "Disastrously".
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- It took World War II to demolish that perspective by demonstrating just how disastrously bad it can be when you give one man, obsessed with protecting "his" people, absolute power.
Source: Good Is Old-Fashioned -
In an early edition of the supplement GURPS Alternate Earths, Telsa's one date with the niece of JP Morgan did not go disastrously bad (in real life, he freaked at her pearl earrings... a phobia to round objects).
Source: Useful Notes / Nikola Tesla -
The entire reason the Soviets started the war was because a disastrously bad harvest was sending them into a famine, so they wanted to seize the most productive farmland on Earth: the US and Canadian agricultural heartland.
Source: Film / Red Dawn (1984)
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