Badly and Cheaply

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Badly adverb - In an unsatisfactory way.

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Cheaply and badly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Cheaply" instead an adverb "Badly".

Nearby Word: bad

Cheaply adverb - In a cheap manner.

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Badly and cheaply are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Badly" instead an adverb "Cheaply".

Nearby Words: cheap, cheapen, cheapness

Where done cheaply or badly or unconvincingly, look out for this getting panned on AT Stepford Consumer: The people who add to blogs on AT are most definitely not this trope and get really snarky about the advertising executive's lazy assumption all consumers are Stepford.

Source: Website / Ad Turds
The movie is a hilarious patchwork of badly shot exposition, cheaply done action scenes, over-the-top terrible acting and the ineffable Seagal himself, playing himself.

Source: So Bad Its Good / Film
Saturn, on the other hand, was almost as badly designed as the "Duke" (the original Xbox controller), with a bulky, lumpy shape, an uncomfortable concave d-pad, bumpy buttons and cheaply made shoulder buttons to use.

Source: Useful Notes / Sega Saturn

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